GAZA CITY, Palestine/ISTANBUL

The Israeli army killed 63 people and injured several others in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to medics.

Gaza’s Civil Defense said in a statement that 22 people, including nine children and six women, were killed, and many others were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted displaced civilians in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City.

Two more people lost their lives after a residential building was shelled in the same neighborhood, medical sources told Anadolu.

In the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, eight people were killed and others injured, while another civilian was killed in the Al-Rimal neighborhood by Israeli army fire.

In the Tel Hawa neighborhood, the army targeted a vehicle carrying displaced Palestinians, killing two people and injuring several others.

Two more people were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the Shejaiya neighborhood in the same city.

On Sept. 21, the Israeli army escalated its ground operations in Gaza City, which began on Aug. 11, as part of a plan approved by the government to gradually occupy the Gaza Strip.

In the central Gaza Strip, the Israeli army killed 11 Palestinians and injured 17 others in an airstrike targeting a civilian gathering near a displacement camp in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

Five more people were killed and many others injured, including women and children, in strikes targeting two houses in the same camp.

Nine aid seekers were also killed by Israeli gunfire near an aid distribution site in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Another Palestinian was killed by army fire in Khan Younis city, southern Gaza.

The Israeli army has killed more than 65,400 Palestinians, most of them women and children, in Gaza since October 2023. The relentless bombardment has rendered the enclave uninhabitable and led to starvation and the spread of diseases.