Gaza City has witnessed yet another bloody chapter added to the ongoing genocide against Palestinians, as the Israeli occupation continues its systematic targeting of defenceless civilians across the Strip through killings, displacement, and destruction, in blatant violation of international law and humanitarian principles.
At dawn on Sunday, Israeli occupation air raids killed 17 Palestinians, most of them displaced persons and children, in a series of strikes that included artillery shelling across different areas of Gaza City.
Medical sources confirmed that eight children were among the dead, with dozens of others injured. Among the casualties were pupils from Al-Fakhoura School, which was sheltering displaced families before it was hit in an air raid. In another strike, warplanes bombed a house in Sheikh Radwan in northern Gaza, killing four children.
Elsewhere, two more children were killed and others injured when an Israeli drone targeted a group of displaced people in central Gaza. Meanwhile, artillery shelling continued in the same area, accompanied by heavy gunfire from military vehicles.
Eastern Gaza also witnessed a new wave of bombardment, including air raids and artillery shelling, in scenes reflecting the occupation’s scorched-earth policy aimed at forcibly displacing the population.
These crimes are part of the broader context of genocide imposed on Gaza’s residents since 7 October 2023, during which they have endured relentless bombardment, systematic killings, forced displacement, starvation, and deprivation of water, medicine, and basic necessities. The destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure has compounded the catastrophe. So far, more than 64,368 Palestinians have been killed, with 162,367 others injured, most of them women and children, in addition to over 9,000 missing and hundreds of thousands displaced.
The genocide does not stop at killing civilians or destroying homes and shelters. It also includes a policy of forced displacement that has repeatedly driven hundreds of thousands of families into new waves of displacement under inhumane conditions marked by extreme deprivation of food, water, and medicine.
Taken together, these violations constitute crimes of genocide under international law, as they aim to eradicate Palestinian existence itself, uproot people from their land, and impose a colonial reality — all under a backdrop of international silence that amounts to complicity.
