The horrific crimes against Palestinian civilians and the starving of the population in the Gaza Strip continue, with every hour passing reports of deaths and injuries caused by Israeli bombardments targeting residential neighbourhoods, the tents of displaced people, and areas where aid is awaited.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, several civilians were killed and injured in separate airstrikes launched by the occupation’s warplanes on Gaza City and its surroundings. The most severe strike occurred in the Abu Sharia area of the al-Sabra neighbourhood, where casualties were rushed to hospitals already struggling under mounting medical shortages.
In another attack, at least eight civilians were killed when the tents of displaced families in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, in the south of the Strip, were bombed; an assault amounting to the direct targeting of those fleeing the horrors of war in search of safety.
Meanwhile, two more civilians were killed and others injured when occupation aircraft struck Palestinians gathered in anticipation of aid near the Netzarim axis in central Gaza. The attack starkly illustrated the deliberate denial of residents’ most basic human rights, including the right to food and the right to be spared death by starvation.
Since dawn today, the death toll has risen to 25 civilians, including eight who had been waiting for humanitarian assistance, while air and artillery bombardments continued to strike various areas of the Strip, relentlessly multiplying the number of victims.
Over the course of the months-long assault, the genocide has left more than 210,000 people dead or wounded, the majority of them women and children, in addition to more than 9,000 reported missing; either buried beneath the rubble or recorded missing. Hundreds of thousands of displaced people are enduring catastrophic conditions, with famine claiming countless lives, including those of children, amidst vast destruction of housing and infrastructure.
The continuation of these systematic violations against civilians, mass killings, deliberate starvation, and widespread destruction constitutes a flagrant breach of the principles of international humanitarian law and reflects a determination to erase civilian life in the Strip, in a genocidal war waged by the occupation amid international silence.
