The genocide in the Gaza Strip has now entered its 700th consecutive day, with the machinery of death continuing its relentless aerial and artillery assault on defenceless civilians, leaving behind mass casualties and devastation, while the international community remains shamefully silent.
At dawn on Friday, the Israeli army launched a series of intense airstrikes concentrated on Gaza City, killing 30 Palestinians, including women and children, and injuring dozens more.
Several areas across the city were targeted directly, striking homes, residential apartments, and tents sheltering displaced people, who have no safe haven from the violence.
In the Abu Dhabi building, opposite the Public Services Hospital, three Palestinians were killed in an airstrike on a flat. Another three were killed in a flat on Yarmouk Market Street in the Al-Daraj neighbourhood.
In the western part of the Strip, an Israeli drone targeted a tent for displaced people at the Islamic University, killing four. A suicide drone also struck near Al-Azhar University, killing two women. In Al-Rimal, two Palestinians were killed in a strike on an apartment near the YMCA.
The attacks also hit tents for displaced families on Al-Thawra Street near Al-Noor Mosque and the Ministry of Labour building, which was sheltering dozens. Four more Palestinians were killed there.
In the Al-Sabra neighbourhood, a helicopter strike on a residential building killed a couple and their child, injuring others. Drone attacks also struck tents beside Al-Buraq School on Al-Lababidi Street in the city centre, causing numerous injuries.
Beyond the airstrikes, Israeli forces continued a campaign of systematic destruction, detonating homes with booby-trapped robots in Jabalia and north-east Sheikh Radwan, alongside artillery shelling in Zaytoun and Sabra, and direct gunfire from quadcopter drones targeting civilian homes.
In central Gaza, a house belonging to the Danf family in Deir al-Balah was bombed following a warning to evacuate. Artillery also struck areas in southern and central Khan Younis, though casualties were not immediately confirmed.
What is happening in Gaza constitutes a full-fledged crime of genocide: the deliberate killing of civilians, denial of basic life necessities, and the wide-scale destruction of population infrastructure. Since 7 October 2023, the war has resulted in 64,231 deaths, 161,583 injuries, over 9,000 missing persons, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that has already killed 370 people, including 131 children.
The systematic targeting of civilians, shelters, and homes, alongside starvation policies, represents a clear and ongoing campaign of genocide, executed in full view of a watching and complicit world.
