GAZA CITY, Palestine / ANKARA /ISTANBUL

Israeli army attacks across the Gaza Strip killed at least 71 Palestinians on Friday, including 24 people who were waiting for humanitarian aid as Tel Aviv escalated its genocidal war on the enclave, medics said.

Three Palestinians were killed in a strike targeting civilians near the al-Sabra school, which shelters displaced people, in southern Gaza City.

Four were killed and several injured, some critically, as a result of artillery shelling targeting aid recipients near the Wadi Gaza area in central Gaza Strip.

In one of the deadliest incidents of the day, 15 people were killed and 90 more injured while waiting for food assistance near the al-Tahlia Roundabout in eastern Khan Younis in southern Gaza, a medical source told Anadolu.

Five civilians were shot dead near an aid distribution center in northwestern Rafah in southern Gaza.

Another five Palestinians were killed in separate Israeli attacks on civilian gatherings in the al-Tuffah and Zeitoun neighborhoods east of Gaza City.

Four more people were killed in an Israeli strike targeting a gathering of residents in Jabalia Al-Nazla area in northern Gaza, and a tent for displaced civilians in the Saftawi area north of Gaza City.

Eleven other Palestinians were killed in a strike on a family home in the northern town of Jabalia.

Eight Palestinians, including women and children, were killed when Israeli forces struck a displaced people's tent near Tiba Towers in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis.

Most of the victims were members of the same family whose shelter was directly hit near the Tiba Towers, eyewitnesses told Anadolu. Several others were injured in the attack.

In another nearby attack, three more people, including two children, were killed near the British field hospital in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis.

Airstrikes also struck two tents along the Khan Younis beachfront, killing four civilians, most of them women and children.

The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that Israeli artillery also struck tents housing displaced civilians in al-Mawasi, Rafah, in southern Gaza, causing further casualties.

In central Gaza, four people were killed in the al-Bureij refugee camp when a family's house was targeted in an overnight raid.

In the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, two Palestinians were killed in an airstrike targeting a gathering of civilians in the Al-Hasayneh area, medics said.

Meanwhile, three more people were killed in southern Gaza City following a strike on a family home in the al-Sabra neighborhood.

Israeli forces also hit a school sheltering displaced people, though casualties from that strike were not immediately confirmed.

In a separate incident, Israeli forces demolished multiple residential homes in northern Khan Younis, according to eyewitnesses.

The latest attacks came just one day after more than 100 Palestinians were killed across the Gaza Strip, including 51 people who lost their lives while waiting for humanitarian aid, according to local reports.

Despite international calls for a ceasefire, the Israeli army has pursued a genocidal war on Gaza, killing more than 57,100 Palestinians, most of them women and children, since October 2023.

Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for 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.