UPDATE - 13 killed in fresh Israeli attacks, 6 more die of starvation in Gaza Strip

UPDATES WITH STATEMENT FROM GAZA HEALTH MINISTRY ON DEATHS FROM STARVATION; REVISES HEADLINE, LEDE; ADDS DECK

By Ramzi Mahmud and Betul Yilmaz

GAZA CITY, Palestine / ISTANBUL (AA) - At least 13 people were killed in fresh Israeli army attacks, while six more people died of starvation in the famine-ravaged Gaza Strip, medics and the Health Ministry in the Palestinian enclave said Wednesday.

Medical sources told Anadolu that five people, including a pregnant woman and her unborn child, were killed when an Israeli helicopter struck a residential building in western Gaza City

Another home was hit by an army helicopter in central Gaza City, resulting in the death of three people, they added.

Israeli forces also targeted tents sheltering displaced civilians in the vicinity of the Ranteesi Specialist Hospital in the Nasr neighborhood of the same city. A number of injuries, including severe wounds, were reported.

Israeli warplanes hit a residential building in the Nasr neighborhood, injuring several others.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army continued to detonate homes by blowing up booby-trapped robots in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, Gaza City, under an occupation plan.

On Aug. 8, Israel’s security cabinet approved a plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to gradually reoccupy the Gaza Strip, beginning with Gaza City.

Israeli quadcopter helicopters dropped incendiary bombs on tents sheltering displaced people and stalls in the Sheikh Radwan marketplace, sparking fires that damaged the tents and citizens' properties. An Israeli artillery shelled the Zeitoun and Sabra neighborhoods in the same city, witnesses said.

In the central Gaza Strip, five Palestinians were killed and five others injured in drone strikes on the Nuseirat refugee camp.

In a statement, Gaza’s Health Ministry said that six people, including a child, died of starvation and severe malnutrition in the last 24 hours in the Gaza Strip, bringing famine-related deaths to 367, including 131 children.

The ministry said 89 of the deaths, 16 of them children, occurred after the UN-backed hunger monitoring system Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) formally declared Gaza a famine zone last month.

The Israeli army has launched a brutal military offensive on the Gaza Strip, killing more than 63,600 Palestinians in Gaza. 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.