• 6 people, including child, die of starvation in last 24 hours, taking famine-related deaths to 367, Health Ministry says

GAZA CITY, Palestine / ISTANBUL 

At least 46 people were killed in attacks by Israeli forces while six more people died of starvation in the famine-ravaged Gaza Strip, medics and the Health Ministry in the Palestinian enclave said Wednesday.

Medical sources told Anadolu that five people, including a pregnant woman and her unborn child, were killed when an Israeli helicopter struck a residential building in western Gaza City.

Another home was hit by an army helicopter in central Gaza City, resulting in the deaths of three people, they added.

Israeli forces also targeted tents sheltering displaced civilians in the vicinity of the Ranteesi Specialist Hospital in the Nasr neighborhood of the city. A number of injuries were reported.

Israeli warplanes struck a residential building in the Nasr neighborhood, injuring several others.

Ten people lost their lives and 18 others were wounded in Israeli strikes on the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.

Another strike killed six Palestinians, including children, and injured 18 others after an Israeli attack targeted a gathering of civilians.

In Gaza City’s al-Rimal neighborhood, five Palestinians were killed when an Israeli helicopter bombed an apartment near the fishermen’s port.

In Gaza City’s al-Daraj neighborhood, three Palestinians were killed when a helicopter targeted the home of the Al-Sawafiri family.

In the Al-Shujaiya neighborhood in the eastern part of the city, the Israeli army killed four Palestinians in a drone strike on civilians

The Israeli army also continued to detonate homes by blowing up booby-trapped robots in the neighborhood as Tel Aviv seeks to fully reoccupy the area.

On Aug. 8, Israel’s Security Cabinet approved a plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to gradually reoccupy the Gaza Strip, beginning with Gaza City.

Israeli quadcopter helicopters dropped incendiary bombs on tents sheltering displaced people and stalls in the Sheikh Radwan marketplace, sparking fires that damaged the tents and citizens' properties. Israeli artillery also shelled the Zeitoun and Sabra neighborhoods in the city, witnesses said.

In the central Gaza Strip, five Palestinians were killed and five others injured in drone strikes on the Nuseirat refugee camp.

In southern Gaza, Israeli forces opened fire on civilians waiting for aid in Rafah, killing three people and injuring 50 others.

Two Palestinian women were killed by Israeli artillery shelling in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Gaza’s Health Ministry meanwhile said that six people, including a child, died of starvation and severe malnutrition in the last 24 hours in the Gaza Strip, bringing famine-related deaths to 367, including 131 children.

The ministry said 89 of the deaths, 16 of them children, occurred after the UN-backed hunger monitoring system the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) formally declared Gaza a famine zone last month.

The Israeli army has launched a brutal military offensive on the Gaza Strip, killing more than 63,700 Palestinians. 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.