The Israeli occupation has continued its campaign of genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Since this morning, 32 civilians have been killed, 11 of whom were waiting for aid, and dozens more injured in a series of airstrikes and shootings that targeted homes, tents, and gatherings of people across various areas of the Strip.
These attacks come amid an unprecedented humanitarian disaster marked by a suffocating siege, the collapse of essential services, the spread of famine, and the ongoing bombardment and mass killings that make no distinction between child and adult, civilian and combatant.
In southern Gaza City, the occupation forces committed a fresh massacre, killing 11 civilians and wounding dozens more. Soldiers opened fire directly on a crowd of starving people gathered near the Netzarim corridor as they waited for the arrival of desperately needed aid trucks, of which only a severely limited number are allowed into the Strip.
According to eyewitnesses, civilians who spend hours lying on the ground in search of food are repeatedly subjected to live fire from occupation forces or fall victim to armed looting carried out by gangs allegedly backed implicitly or otherwise by the occupation, in what appears to be a systematic effort to sow chaos and dismantle the social fabric of Gaza’s devastated society.
In the Zeitoun neighbourhood of southern Gaza City, an airstrike killed three members of the Al-Manasra family, including a child, and wounded several others after their home was directly targeted.
In central Gaza, a similar strike on a house in Al-Maghazi refugee camp claimed the lives of ten civilians. Meanwhile, in western Khan Younis, in the Al-Mawasi area, eight more people, among them children, were killed when two tents sheltering displaced families were bombed.
Since 7 October 2023, Gaza’s residents have been subjected to a relentless war marked by the systematic use of tools of genocide: indiscriminate killing, total siege, starvation, the systematic destruction of homes, healthcare and educational facilities, and the forced displacement of civilians from their areas.
These ongoing crimes are not limited to bombing alone but also include calculated policies aimed at eradicating the fundamentals of life, blocking access to food, water, and medicine, targeting civilians in their shelters, and terrorising the displaced through repeated strikes on areas of refuge.
At the time of writing, the number of people killed and injured in Gaza has exceeded 185,000, most of them women and children. In addition, more than 11,000 individuals remain missing, and hundreds of thousands of displaced persons are sleeping on bare ground in dire living conditions, under the constant threat of famine and disease.
Despite orders from the International Court of Justice demanding a halt to the assault, the occupation continues to commit the same crimes, emboldened by political and military backing from major world powers, effectively placing it beyond accountability.
Gaza is not merely witnessing an armed conflict, but it is witnessing a living example of genocide being perpetrated in the 21st century with modern means of destruction, amid disturbing international silence and clear complicity in obstructing paths to justice, leaving civilians to face their fate under bombardment, starvation, and ruin.
