• 3 more people die of starvation, raising famine-related deaths to 269 people, including 112 children

GAZA CITY, Palestine / ISTANBUL

Israeli army attacks killed 49 civilians, including children, in the Gaza Strip since early Wednesday amid military escalation in Gaza City, according to medical sources.

A medical source told Anadolu three people were killed and 10 others injured in an Israeli strike on a house in Jabalia al-Nazla town, northern Gaza Strip.

Another source said five members of a family were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in the Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City.

Four others, including children, were killed in another strike on a tent near the Islamic University of Gaza in the same city.

The military also killed two Palestinians when it targeted a gathering of civilians in the Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City.

The Israeli army shelled a house in the southern Sabra neighborhood, killing two children and injuring others.

Four more Palestinians from the same family lost their lives, and others were injured after the Israeli army struck a building sheltering displaced people in the Zeitoun neighborhood in southeastern Gaza City. The strike also ignited a fire in the building.

Sounds of explosions were heard in various areas of Gaza City, witnesses said.

The Israeli military intensified air and artillery strikes on Gaza City’s Zeitoun and Sabra neighborhoods for a 10th consecutive day as part of a broader operation launched on Aug. 11 that includes home demolitions, gunfire, the use of booby-trapped devices, and forced displacement.

According to the Israeli public broadcaster KAN on Wednesday, Defense Minister Israel Katz approved a plan to occupy Gaza City.

In the central Gaza Strip, eight Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire near an aid distribution point in the northern Nuseirat refugee camp, according to a statement from Al-Awda hospital.

Six more people, including a child, were killed, and others were injured when Israeli warplanes targeted several houses in the same refugee camp.

A Palestinian woman and her two children, one of them a toddler, were killed in an Israeli strike on their house in a refugee camp in Khan Younis.

Israeli aircraft targeted a tent in al-Mawasi in the same city, injuring 12 people.

Nine other Palestinians were killed when warplanes hit tents sheltering displaced families in al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis.

In another strike, two people, including a child, were killed and several others wounded when a house was hit by Israeli shelling near the Suwairha cemetery west of Nuseirat.

Separately, one Palestinian was killed in an airstrike that targeted a home near a bakery in the same camp.

The Israeli army has pursued a brutal assault on the Gaza Strip since October 2023, killing at least 62,122 people and injuring more than 156,700 others, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

A ministry statement said three more people died of starvation and malnutrition in the last 24 hours, bringing the famine-related deaths since October 2023 to 269 people, including 112 children.

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.