GAZA, (Palestine Foundation Information Center) For 686 days, the Israeli occupation has waged a genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip, unleashing relentless air and artillery strikes, killing displaced and starving civilians with political and military backing from the United States, and underpinned by an appalling international silence.
PIC reporters confirmed that dozens of air raids were carried out this morning, worsening the already catastrophic humanitarian crisis amid mass displacement affecting over two million people amidst extreme famine.
Breaking developments
Medical sources in Gaza hospitals reported at least 30 martyrs and dozens of injured due to Israeli attacks across various areas of the Strip since early Friday.
A drone strike in Ash-Sheef, in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood (northeastern Gaza City), killed and wounded several civilians.
Two individuals were also killed by Israeli gunfire in separate incidents near ‘Asda, northwest of Khan Yunis.
Israeli forces dropped evacuation leaflets over Halima al-Sa’diyah School in Jabalia Camp and the outskirts of Abu Iskandar, demanding the displaced sheltering inside to move south.
A drone strike hit a water station in Mawasi, Khan Yunis, causing several casualties.
A twelve-year-old boy succumbed to injuries sustained from an Israeli strike in the Morag area, southern Khan Yunis.
Civilians were injured in an Israeli air raid north of ‘Asda, west of Khan Yunis.
Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat reported nine martyrs (including a woman and child) and 38 injuries (including two women and ten children) in the past 24 hours. Many of these stem from attacks on displaced gatherings at an aid distribution point in southern Wadi Gaza.
Infant Ghadir Breika (5 months) died at Nasser Medical Complex due to acute malnutrition, her fragile health, already compromised by malnutrition, neurological atrophy, and cerebral palsy, was pushed beyond endurance by a lack of food and medicine. Tragically, her mother also suffers from severe malnutrition.
Two martyrs were pulled from the rubble of the Abu Shre’ah home in as‑Sabra, and a third later died from injuries.
At least 12 civilians were killed and dozens more were injured when Israeli artillery shelled Amr ibn al-‘As School, sheltering displaced families in Sheikh Radwan, northern Gaza.
Israeli Apache helicopter fire was reported in eastern Gaza City.
Israeli forces opened fire near the Shakoush aid center in northwest Rafah.
A residential block near the Al-Istijaba Mosque in as‑Sabra, southern Gaza, was completely destroyed in the early hours.
A mother and her child were killed, and others injured, after an airstrike hit the Al-Amarin family home in as‑Sabra.
Eight people were killed and others injured when Israeli shelling struck a housing unit near Abu Aasi School in northern Shati’ refugee camp.
Israeli forces shelled neighborhoods in az-Zaytoun and as-Sabra, targeting wounded and displaced.
A home around Bilal bin Rabah Mosque in southern Gaza City’s az-Zaytoun was bombed.
Demolition robots were used to destroy several civilian homes in az-Zaytoun (southeastern Gaza) and Shujaiya (eastern Gaza City).
Israeli forces conducted detonations in Jabalia; five martyrs were reported in a strike on a displaced persons’ tent in Jalaa Street; a nearby displacement camp by Sharq Bakery was also attacked.
A child was killed and others injured when Israeli aircraft struck a residential apartment near Al-Ahli Club in Nuseirat Camp.
Three civilians were injured in airstrikes on a home in Khan Yunis Camp, and two more homes near Ebad al-Rahman Mosque in Khan Yunis were hit.
Meanwhile, at least 12 Palestinian civilians were martyred and dozens more were wounded on Friday morning after Israeli occupation forces bombed a school sheltering displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.
A source from the emergency medical services told the Palestinian Information Center that 12 bodies and many wounded were pulled from the rubble after Israeli artillery shelled the courtyard of the Amr Ibn Al-As School with two shells. The school was housing many displaced families in and around Sheikh Radwan.
The source added that Israeli forces continued to bomb the area surrounding the school, where a large number of tents for the displaced were also located, firing approximately four additional artillery shells, resulting in more casualties.
This brutal attack comes as occupation forces intensify their barbaric bombardment of Gaza City and its neighborhoods, announcing preparations for a criminal assault dubbed “Gideon Chariots 2,” in blatant disregard for international, human rights, and local warnings of the catastrophic consequences of such an operation.
Since August 11, the Israeli army has launched a sweeping offensive across the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in southeast Gaza City, using robot-mounted explosives, heavy artillery, arbitrary gunfire, and forced evictions to dismantle civilian infrastructure and clear the ground for reasserting dominance over the remainder of the Strip.
