Palestinian medical sources said that about 35 Palestinians were killed since dawn on Friday as a result of the ongoing Israeli occupation bombing of the Gaza Strip, while the United Nations World Food Program warned of the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Strip as the devastating war continues.
Medical sources said that among the martyrs were 19 Palestinians who were killed as a result of the occupation’s bombing of 3 homes in the Al-Shuja’iya and Al-Tuffah neighborhoods, east of Gaza City.
Medical sources said that 9 people were martyred after a raid launched by the occupation army on two houses in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, one of which was for the Hathat family, resulting in the fall of 5 martyrs, and the second for the Al-Jamasi family on Al-Sha’af Street in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, leaving 4 martyrs. The bombing completely destroyed the two houses and resulted in damage. A large number of nearby houses are built of tin.
Also, 5 martyrs were killed in a third bombing of a house in the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza City.
#a witness | The occupation continues to bomb and blow up buildings in Rafah pic.twitter.com/9BvwKtXj4h
– Palestinian Information Center (@PalinfoAr) June 15, 2024
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the raids that targeted the three homes left more than 50 injured. He said that among the martyrs was an infant who was martyred in the bombing of one of the two homes that were targeted in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that Israeli occupation artillery targeted the vicinity of Al-Bastaat Market in the Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
He also said that the Israeli occupation forces blew up residential buildings in the Al-Mughraqa area, north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Starvation war
This comes as medical sources said that a ten-year-old Palestinian child was martyred in Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip as a result of malnutrition and dehydration.
The government media office in Gaza said that Israel escalated what it described as a war of starvation in the Gaza and North Gaza governorates.
#photo | A sad farewell to the child Mustafa Hijazi (10 years old), who died of malnutrition in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/nlBu0hmLtK
– Palestinian Information Center (@PalinfoAr) June 15, 2024
The United Nations World Food Program also warned that the continuation of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip makes it impossible to deliver food aid in the Strip.
The program expressed its fear that southern Gaza would soon witness the same catastrophic levels of hunger that were previously recorded in the northern regions, noting that with the escalation of fighting in southern and central Gaza, the losses among civilians are devastating.
The program stressed the need for continued improvement and expansion of aid delivery in the north to ensure food supplies, adding that access to clean water, health care, fuel for bakeries and medical supplies is also essential to achieving stable food security.
The Israeli war on Gaza left more than 122,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and about 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly.
The Israeli occupation army continues this war, ignoring a Security Council resolution demanding that it stop the fighting immediately, and orders from the Court of Justice demanding that it stop its attack on Rafah, and take immediate measures to prevent acts of “genocide” and “improve the humanitarian situation” in Gaza.