Israeli Army Kills 41 Palestinians in Gaza, Including Entire Families, Amid Ongoing Genocide
Strikes target displaced persons, families, and shelters across the Gaza Strip, with fires and destruction reported from north to south.
Watan-The Israeli army killed at least 41 Palestinians, including entire families, in strikes across several areas of the Gaza Strip as part of an ongoing genocide that has lasted for 19 months, according to the Civil Defense and medical sources on Thursday.
The Civil Defense said in a statement: “A new horrific Israeli crime against Palestinian civilians—more than 15 martyrs, mostly women and children, were recovered after Israeli forces targeted displaced persons’ tents at the end of Al-Istabl Street in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis,” in the southern part of the Strip.
The statement added that “the bombing caused fires in the tents, leading to the burning of bodies and injuries.”
Israeli Strikes Kill Civilians Across Khan Younis and Rafah
According to a medical source, “among the martyrs are five children and four women.”
The Civil Defense also reported “recovering the bodies of a child and his father, in addition to seven injured, after Israel bombed a tent for displaced people near the Tayba Towers west of Khan Younis.”
A medical source said the European Hospital east of Khan Younis “received the bodies of two martyrs killed in an Israeli drone strike in the Al-Manara neighborhood of the city.”
Meanwhile, Nasser Hospital “received the body of a martyr killed in an Israeli strike on Al-Salam neighborhood in the city,” the source added.
In Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, “a young man was martyred and two others were wounded in a strike by an Israeli drone on the Al-Shakoush area,” according to a medical source.
Paramedics said, “An Israeli helicopter bombed the Abu Dan family home in the Armeida area of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis, resulting in injuries.”
Simultaneously, “the Israeli army demolished residential buildings north of Rafah,” according to eyewitnesses.
Witnesses also reported that “Israeli artillery bombed northern areas of Rafah and southern areas of Khan Younis.”
Israeli military vehicles, under heavy fire, “advanced from the Mirage area north of Rafah to the Qizan Abu Rashwan area south of Khan Younis,” witnesses said.
Various Attacks
In central Gaza, “a Palestinian was killed and others wounded in a drone strike on a gathering of civilians east of Nuseirat camp,” a medical source reported.
Another source stated, “Two Palestinians were martyred in an Israeli artillery shelling in the Al-Shuja’iya area, east of Gaza City.”
There was also “artillery shelling north of Al-Bureij camp and northeast of Nuseirat,” while Israeli warships bombed the coast west of Nuseirat camp, according to eyewitnesses.
Targeting the Displaced
In northern Gaza, eyewitnesses said, “an Israeli suicide drone targeted the Al-Ayoubia School, which shelters displaced people in Jabalia camp, causing a fire.”
A medical source at the Indonesian Hospital reported “receiving the charred bodies of four martyrs, including a young girl, from the Al-Ayoubia School bombing, along with several critically wounded individuals.”
Another medical source said, “an Israeli drone bombed a tent for displaced people on New Interior Street in Jabalia town.”
He explained that the strike “killed seven Palestinians—all members of the Asaliya family: the father, mother, and their five children—while 15 others were injured.”
In Beit Lahia, in the north, “six martyrs and several wounded were recovered after an Israeli strike targeted a tent sheltering displaced people,” according to a second Civil Defense statement.
A medical source confirmed, “the martyrs were all members of the Mohammad Al-Atal (Abu Anas) family: the husband, wife, and their four children.”
Heavy Shelling in Gaza City as Civilian Death Toll Rises Amid Ongoing Siege
Eyewitnesses also said, “Israeli artillery heavily shelled the eastern neighborhoods of Al-Zaytoun and Al-Shuja’iya in Gaza City, accompanied by intense gunfire from military vehicles and drone fire from quadcopters.”
Meanwhile, “Israeli warships fired heavily on the Gaza City coastline,” according to local sources.
Since resuming its genocide in Gaza on March 18, Israel has killed 1,652 Palestinians and injured 4,391 others—mostly women and children—according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza on Wednesday morning.
In total, the Israeli genocide, backed by the United States since October 7, 2023, has resulted in over 167,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them women and children, and more than 11,000 missing persons.
Israel has imposed a blockade on Gaza for 18 years. About 1.5 million out of the approximately 2.4 million residents are now homeless, after their homes were destroyed in the war of extermination, and the Strip has entered a famine phase due to Tel Aviv’s closure of crossings to humanitarian aid.
