Israel Airstrikes Kill 75 in Gaza
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Israeli military strikes on residential areas across Gaza have killed at least 76 Palestinians since Friday, as the United Nations warns that displacement and humanitarian conditions in the enclave have reached catastrophic levels.
Israeli airstrikes continued to pound Gaza over the weekend, with at least eight Palestinians confirmed dead in attacks since midnight local time, bringing the total death toll to 76 since Friday, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
A residential building in Khan Younis was struck by Israeli forces, killing at least four people and injuring dozens more, local media reported.
In a separate incident, two people were killed and several injured when an Israeli strike hit a home in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Alaa Al-Najjar, a physician at Nasser Hospital, lost nine of her children in the Khan Younis attack, which destroyed the family home and ignited fires across the neighborhood.
Civil defense teams recovered all nine bodies from the rubble, with eight severely dismembered.
Al-Najjar received the news while working in the pediatric ward. Her children were aged between 2 and 16. Her husband was also wounded in the attack.
The strikes extended into Friday morning, following an Israeli assault the previous day on a hospital in northern Gaza, where tanks and drones reportedly ignited fires and caused major damage, according to Palestinian hospital officials.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Friday that 599,000 people have been newly displaced since the breakdown of the ceasefire, including 161,000 in the past week alone, between May 15 and 21.
According to OCHA, 81% of Gaza’s population now resides in Israeli-designated militarized zones, areas under evacuation orders, or other high-risk locations, leaving civilians with virtually no safe refuge.
Humanitarian agencies continue to raise alarms over famine risks, with aid restrictions still in place and access severely limited across the enclave of 2.3 million people.
From March 2 to May 18, Israel maintained a total blockade on Gaza for 11 consecutive weeks, cutting off all humanitarian aid, according to UN reports.
Israel’s military campaign in Gaza began on October 7, 2023. The Gaza Health Ministry says at least 53,800 people have been killed so far, the majority of them women and children.
A 42-day truce deal brokered in January collapsed on March 1 after numerous Israeli violations, and efforts to revive negotiations have stalled.
Israel resumed its brutal war on March 18, launching fresh attacks after nearly two months of ceasefire.
The UN and humanitarian organizations have repeatedly condemned Israel for using starvation as a method of warfare and urged immediate international intervention.
