UPDATE 4 - Israeli strikes kill 64 Palestinians across Gaza Strip

UPDATES DEATH TOLL, REVISES DECK

By Ikram Kouachi and Rania Abu Shamala

ANKARA / ISTANBUL (AA) - At least 64 Palestinians were killed and several others injured on Friday in Israeli attacks targeting multiple areas across the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources.

The Israeli army shelled Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in the Zikim area, northwest of the Gaza Strip, killing at least 25 people and wounding dozens of others.

The army also killed seven Palestinians and injured several others in an airstrike targeting security personnel escorting aid trucks in the Karama area, northwest of the enclave, medics said.

In the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, two Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli strike on a house in Al-Faluja neighborhood.

In Gaza City, 18 Palestinians were killed in Israeli bombardment of the Zeitoun and Shejaiya neighborhoods.

Four more people were killed and four others injured when an Israeli drone bombed tents sheltering displaced civilians in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

A Palestinian woman was also killed and others were wounded when an Israeli strike hit a tent near the Tiberias Station in western Khan Younis.

Further south in Khan Younis, three Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid were killed and 73 others injured when Israeli forces opened fire on the crowd.

In central Gaza’s city of Deir al-Balah, four more people were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a residential area.

Several casualties were also reported in Gaza City, where Israeli forces bombed a building in the Al-Rimal neighborhood and a house near the Sheikh Radwan cemetery.

Rejecting international calls for a ceasefire, the Israeli army has pursued a brutal offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, killing more than 60,300 Palestinians, most of them women and children. The relentless bombardment has devastated the enclave and led to food shortages.

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.