According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, a total of 66 people were murdered and 345 wounded by Israeli fire over the past day, including 15 who were trying to obtain humanitarian aid and 10 who died of hunger
Haaretz
At least 11 Palestinians, including children, were murdered in an IDF airstrike on a bakery in Gaza City on Saturday, medical sources said.
Dozens more were wounded in the attack on the Ansar neighborhood in the western part of the city while waiting in line to buy bread, medical sources added.
Images from the scene show mangled bodies scattered alongside loaves of bread.
The Gaza Health Ministry said on Saturday that at least 66 people were killed and 345 wounded by Israeli fire over the past 24 hours, including 15 who were trying to obtain humanitarian aid.
According to medical sources in Gaza, 50 of the deaths occurred since Saturday morning, including at least 35 in Gaza City alone.
Five people were murdered and several others wounded in an IDF airstrike on a residential building in the Rimal neighborhood in western Gaza City. Reports indicated that the first and second floors of the building were directly hit, and eyewitnesses described harrowing scenes of casualties being evacuated from the site.
Israeli defense officials said that the strike targeted the spokesperson of Hamas’ military wing, Abu Obeida. Hamas said that the strike represented ‘a continuation of destruction and escalation aimed at forcing civilians to leave the city.’
Four other Gaza City victims were killed in a strike on a group of civilians in the city’s Zeitoun neighborhood. In another strike in the Yarmouk neighborhood of Gaza City, targeting a building that had previously served as a school, a young girl was killed and several other children were wounded. In the neighborhood of Jabalya, one person was killed in an airstrike on another building that once functioned as a school.
The head of the Red Cross warned on Saturday that it would be impossible to keep people safe during a mass evacuation of Gaza City, as Israel intensifies its assault.
‘It is impossible that a mass evacuation of Gaza City could ever be done in a way that is safe and dignified under the current conditions,’ Red Cross President Mirjana Spoljaric said in a statement.
An evacuation would provoke a massive population displacement that no other area in the Gaza Strip is equipped to absorb, amid severe shortages of food, shelter, and medical supplies, Spoljaric said.
The Gaza Health Ministry also said that 10 people, including three children, died of hunger in the past 24 hours.
According to the Health Ministry, 332 people in the Gaza Strip have died of starvation since the start of the war, including 124 children.
The total death toll from IDF fire since the war began in October 2023 has reached 63,371, with 11,240 killed since Israel broke the cease-fire on March 18, the Health Ministry said.