UPDATES DEATH TOLL
By Ramzi Mahmud, Hosni Nedim, and Betul Yilmaz
GAZA CITY, Palestine / ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 67 people, including aid seekers, were killed by Israeli army fire in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to medics.
A medical source told Anadolu that four people were killed and others injured when Israeli drones struck a group of civilians in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip.
Nine people were killed in Israeli strikes that targeted residential buildings in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.
An Israeli strike hit a building in the Tel Hawa neighborhood in the same city, leaving 14 people dead. Three others were killed when Israeli warplanes targeted an aid distribution point in the same area.
Two more Palestinians were killed, others injured when Israeli army shelled a tent in western Gaza City, and a young Palestinian died of his injuries sustained from Israeli gunfire in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip.
Civil defense teams retrieved the bodies of 11 people, including three children and two women, from the rubble of a home in al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City.
Efforts are still underway to rescue seven more children trapped under the rubble, including a 16-month toddler, medics said.
Israeli fighter jets also hit another aid distribution point in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighborhood, killing three people and injuring several others.
Nine more were killed when Israeli army forces opened fire on civilians waiting for aid delivery near a distribution point at the Netzarim Corridor, central Gaza.
One Palestinian succumbed to his injuries sustained from Israeli gunfire while waiting for aid delivery in the central city of Deir al-Balah.
In southern Gaza, the Israeli army opened fire on civilians waiting for aid in Khan Younis, killing six people and injuring others.
Four people were killed in several Israeli strikes in Khan Younis, a medical source from Nasser Medical Complex said.
An Israeli drone targeted a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in southern Al-Mawasi of Khan Younis, injuring a number of civilians, according to medics.
Israel has killed more than 63,600 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. The military campaign has devastated the enclave, which is facing famine.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.