The Israeli occupation forces also continued to demolish buildings in several neighborhoods in Gaza City, accompanied by warnings to residents to evacuate to the southern part of the Strip. Their forces targeted homes in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood using booby-trapped robots and artillery.
Medical sources reported that eight people were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli airstrike that targeted Al-Farabi School near Yarmouk Stadium in central Gaza, which was sheltering displaced people. Four others, including a child, were also killed and several others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a house at the Al-Ghazali intersection in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood north of Gaza City.
Meanwhile, the bodies of six martyrs, including two children, arrived at Al-Shifa Hospital. The bodies were found after Israeli aircraft targeted a tent for displaced persons near the Legislative Council in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City, and a second airstrike hit an apartment in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of the city.
In the southern Gaza Strip, sources reported the recovery of decomposing bodies of martyrs from Khan Yunis, while Israeli drones targeted the minaret of the Abu Salim Mosque in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, for the second time today.
These attacks come as part of Operation "Gideon 2," which the Israeli military says is the initial stage of its plan to occupy Gaza City. The army is adopting a widespread demolition policy, destroying residential areas and multi-story buildings to force residents to flee.
Medical sources announced on Saturday the deaths of 74 Palestinians, including 53 in Gaza City. Among the martyrs were 30 starving civilians killed by the Israeli army while attempting to collect food from an aid distribution point in the Zikim area in the northern Gaza Strip.
Since last May, when the management of aid flows was handed over to the so-called "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation," affiliated with a private American company, approximately 2,400 Palestinians have been killed and more than 17,000 wounded by Israeli army fire and foreign contractors working with the foundation near aid distribution centers.
The risk of famine is growing
On Sunday, UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram warned of the risk of famine in Gaza worsening and spreading to the central part of the Strip within weeks without urgent intervention, describing the situation as a "complete catastrophe." She emphasized that families are unable to provide food for their children, and that "there is no safe place in Gaza" amid escalating bombardment and increasing displacement toward the coast.
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Ingram explained that 15-20% of Gaza's children suffer from malnutrition, exceeding the threshold of famine. She noted that more than 110 children have died so far, nearly half of them this year, due to hunger and related diseases.
She stressed that thousands of children are in dire need of treatment, and that the entry of hundreds of trucks daily with food, water, and medicine is urgent and essential, warning that more children will face the risk of starvation if the situation continues.
Since March 2, Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, preventing any food, medical treatment, or humanitarian aid from entering the Strip. This has plunged the Strip into famine, despite the backlog of aid trucks at its borders.
Israel sometimes allows very limited amounts of aid into the Strip, which fail to meet the minimum needs of the starving population and do not end the famine, especially since most trucks are robbed by gangs that the Gaza government claims Israel protects.
Factions' response
Despite nearly two years of ongoing war on Gaza, Palestinian factions continue their military response. On Sunday morning, the Al-Quds Brigades (the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement) announced the shelling of the Netivot settlement with two rockets "in response to the occupation's crimes," after the Israeli army announced that one had been intercepted and the other had fallen in an open area.
On April 6, the Qassam Brigades (Hamas' military wing) launched approximately 10 rockets at the city of Ashdod in response to the massacres against civilians. The Brigades are currently continuing their "Moses' Stick" operations to confront the Israeli incursion, targeting tanks, vehicles, and soldiers in the Zeitoun neighborhood in southern Gaza City and the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip in recent days.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving 64,368 Palestinians dead and 162,367 injured, most of them children and women. More than 9,000 are missing, hundreds of thousands are displaced, and a famine has claimed the lives of 382 Palestinians, including 135 children.
