PALESTINE – Israeli attacks across Gaza Strip on Sunday left at least 17 people dead and dozen others injured according to medical reports.
Three people were killed in Israeli artillery shelling targeting the towns of Jabalia and Jabalia al-Nazla in northern Gaza.
In Gaza City, a woman was killed when Israeli forces struck a school in the Zeitoun neighborhood, while Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike near Al-Shafi’i Mosque in the same area.
Israeli army forces also shelled a civilian gathering in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, leaving six people dead, medics said.
Four more people were killed and several others injured when Israeli forces struck a crowd waiting for humanitarian aid near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, a medical source said.
A Palestinian man was also killed and several people were wounded while waiting for aid near a distribution center north of Rafah in southern Gaza.
Two children were also killed in an airstrike targeting a tent sheltering displaced families west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army demolished several residential buildings in Jabalia, and the Zeitoun and Shejaiya neighborhoods in northern Gaza.
On Friday, the UN’s Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) confirmed that famine has taken hold in northern Gaza and is expected to spread further south by the end of September.
Since March 2, Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, blocking humanitarian aid despite stockpiled aid trucks at the border. Only extremely limited quantities have been allowed in, insufficient to meet the minimum needs of the territory’s 2.4 million population.
