Israeli Strikes Kill 23 in Gaza, Including Children, As Genocide Continues
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – At least 23 Palestinians, among them three children and their parents, died in Israeli airstrikes that pounded Gaza overnight into Saturday, escalating the regime’s relentless war of genocide.
The strikes devastated multiple areas, with Gaza’s health ministry reporting a family of five killed when their tent in Gaza City’s Sabra District was bombed.
On Friday, Israeli forces attacked a UNRWA warehouse in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, killing four people whose bodies were later confirmed at the Indonesian Hospital.
Videos showed flames engulfing the repeatedly targeted building amid Israel’s ongoing ground assaults.
The attacks intensify Gaza’s humanitarian catastrophe, worsened by Israel’s intensified bombardment since March, when Tel Aviv shredded a two-month ceasefire agreed in January.
The ceasefire aimed to halt Israel’s war of genocide, launched in October 2023, but the regime not only violated the deal but escalated its deadly campaign.
The war has now killed nearly 52,800 Palestinians, predominantly women and children, with over 119,000 injured.
Israel claims to have eliminated “thousands of” resistance fighters, yet offers no credible evidence.
Compounding the crisis, Israel’s tightened blockade has choked off food and medicine to Gaza’s 2.3 million residents.
Aid groups warn of worsening restrictions, with charity kitchens—the last food source for many—closing as supplies dwindle, risking dozens more shutdowns.
The United Nations and others have dismissed Israel’s proposal to let private groups, including American security contractors and ex-military officers, manage aid distribution.
Critics call the plan inadequate and a potential breach of humanitarian principles.
Israel’s military defends the blockade, claiming it pressures Hamas to free captives and disarm, despite Hamas being Gaza’s sole defense against the regime’s aggression.
Rights groups denounce the blockade as a “starvation tactic” and a war crime.
The regime accuses Hamas of diverting aid, but the UN refutes this, confirming effective monitoring of distribution.
“This ongoing two-month aid ban amounts to ‘genocide in action’,” Amnesty International said this month, pressing for global action to force Israel to lift the siege and allow unrestricted humanitarian access.
Since October 2023, Israel’s unprecedented bombardment has killed over 52,000, displaced 90% of Gaza’s population, and destroyed nearly 60% of the strip’s buildings, according to Palestinian health authorities.
