Israeli Strikes on Gaza Today Kills Over 50
PALESTINE – New Israeli strikes on Gaza today (Tuesday) have left at least 50 Palestinians dead, most of whom were seeking aid as per medical sources.
A medical source said that 37 people lost their lives in Israeli army fire while waiting near an aid distribution point in the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza and in a strike on a house in eastern Gaza City.
Al-Awda Hospital confirmed that it had received 146 people injured, including 62 critically, by Israeli fire at an aid distribution point in Salah Al-Din Street in central Gaza.
According to witnesses, several bodies are still scattered on the ground near the Netzarim Corridor with medics unable to recover them due to the Israeli shelling.
Eight more people were killed in an Israeli strike on a home in the al-Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City, medics said.
Three other people were killed and others injured by Israeli shelling on a tent sheltering displaced civilians in northern Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, a medical source said.
The source added that the bodies of two people killed in previous Israeli attacks were retrieved in Khan Younis.
According to the UN Human Rights Office, at least 503 Palestinian aid seekers have been killed and 3,000 others injured by Israeli fire in Gaza since May 27.
