UPDATE 3 – At least 55 killed as Israeli army escalates attacks on civilians in Gaza

UPDATES DEATH TOLL

By Anadolu staff

GAZA CITY, Palestine / ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 55 more Palestinians were killed and scores injured as the Israeli army escalated its attacks on civilians across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, medics said.

A medical source told Anadolu that the Israeli army shelled civilians seeking to obtain aid on Salah Al-Din Street, near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, killing 10 Palestinians and injuring over 50.

Five others waiting for the aid in western Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip were killed by Israeli army fire, the source said.

Two Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli strike that targeted a home in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli strikes also hit three tents sheltering displaced Palestinians, killing 12 people.

Three others were killed after Israel shelled a group of civilians in central Khan Younis. The bodies of two Palestinians were also retrieved from the rubble in eastern areas of the city.

In the central city of Deir al-Balah, the Israeli army targeted a group of civilians, resulting in the death of five people.

Five more Palestinians lost their lives, and others were injured in Israeli strikes in Gaza City, medics said.

Meanwhile, eight people were injured when Israeli jets struck a residential building in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City.

Three more Palestinians lost their lives when Israeli forces bombed a tent sheltering displaced civilians in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in the same city, a medical source said. An Israeli strike also killed three more people in the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

In northern Gaza, four Palestinians were killed and several others injured when Israeli fighter jets hit a home in Jabalia.

Gaza’s Health Ministry also said that the director of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, Marwan Sultan, was killed, along with some of his family members, after Israeli warplanes hit his house in Gaza City.

Despite international calls for a ceasefire, the Israeli army has pursued a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, killing more than 57,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, since October 2023.

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Israel has agreed to “the necessary conditions” to finalize a 60-day ceasefire in the enclave, urging the Palestinian resistance group Hamas to accept the proposal.

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.