UPDATE – Israel kills 9 more Palestinians in fresh attacks across Gaza Strip

UPDATES DEATH TOLL, CHANGES HEADLINE, DECK

By Ramzi Mahmud, Hosni Nedim, and Ikram Kouachi

GAZA CITY, Palestine/ANKARA (AA) – Nine Palestinians were killed and several others injured in a new wave of attacks across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, medics said.

A medical source said three people were killed in Israeli artillery shelling targeting the towns of Jabalia and Jabalia al-Nazla in northern Gaza.

In Gaza City, a woman was killed when Israeli forces struck a school in the Zeitoun neighborhood, while Israeli warplanes carried out an airstrike near Al-Shafi’i Mosque in the same area.

Four more people were killed and several others injured when Israeli forces struck a crowd waiting for humanitarian aid near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, a medical source said.

A Palestinian man was also killed and several people were wounded while waiting for aid near a distribution center north of Rafah in southern Gaza.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army demolished several residential buildings in Jabalia, and the Zeitoun and Shejaiya neighborhoods in northern Gaza.

The fresh attacks came as the Israeli army plans to occupy Gaza City, as part of a broader strategy to reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip.

On Friday, the UN’s Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) confirmed that famine has taken hold in northern Gaza and is expected to spread further south by the end of September.

Since March 2, Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, blocking humanitarian aid despite stockpiled aid trucks at the border. Only extremely limited quantities have been allowed in, insufficient to meet the minimum needs of the territory’s 2.4 million population.

Israel has killed over 62,600 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.