UPDATE 3 - At least 64 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza

REVISES DEATH TOLL

By Anadolu staff

ISTANBUL/ANKARA/GAZA CITY (AA) - Israeli attacks across Gaza since early Tuesday killed 64 Palestinians and wounded over 200, including 19 fatalities at an Israeli-backed aid distribution site, according to medics.

A medical source told Anadolu that 19 Palestinians were killed and more than 200 injured when Israeli forces opened fire at civilians who gathered to receive aid from an Israeli-backed aid distribution point near the Netzarim Corridor area south of Gaza City.

Witnesses said Israeli quadcopter drones also opened fire towards the aid-seekers at the site.

Medical sources said that four Palestinians were killed as a result of gunfire by the Israeli army in the central Gaza Strip.

In the southern city of Khan Younis, three Palestinians were also killed in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a tent sheltering displaced civilians.

Another medical source said 12 more people were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the town of Jabalia in northern Gaza.

Four family members died when a tent sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis was bombed by the Israeli army, while other strikes targeted homes and Red Crescent facilities in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, resulting in three more fatalities.

Nine others were killed, including two women, in separate Israeli strikes in the same city, medics said.

A medical source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said eight people were killed, including women and children, and several others injured in Israeli shelling of a home in Deir al-Balah.

Two Palestinians died of wounds they sustained in earlier Israeli strikes in the same city, the sources added.

The attacks came as Israeli drones dropped smoke bombs over eastern areas of Gaza City, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA said.

The Israeli army, rejecting international calls for a ceasefire, has pursued a brutal offensive against Gaza since October 2023, killing nearly 55,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children.

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.