GAZA CITY, Palestine/ANKARA/ISTANBUL

Fresh Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 36 Palestinians on Saturday, medical sources told Anadolu.

The sources at the Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat said that six people, including four children, were killed when Israeli forces bombed a home in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

An Israeli drone struck a tent sheltering displaced families in the al-Mawasi area, north of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing a man and his wife.

Several others were also reported injured in both strikes, with hospitals warning of worsening shortages of beds and medical supplies amid the ongoing bombardment.

Five more Palestinians were shot dead and several others injured while waiting for aid near the Zikim crossing, northwest of Gaza City.

Two Palestinians were also killed by Israeli army fire near an aid distribution center in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

A fisherman was killed and another wounded when Israeli naval forces opened fire on them off the coast of Gaza City.

Two Palestinians, including a woman, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent sheltering displaced people in the Sheikh Ijlin neighborhood of Gaza City.

Two other people were killed and others injured in another attack that targeted a gathering of civilians in the Asqula area of Gaza City’s eastern Zeitoun neighborhood.

In Khan Younis, two Palestinians were killed and 15 others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting tents sheltering displaced people.

Nine more people, including a child, waiting for US aid were shot dead by Israeli forces near a distribution center south of Khan Younis.

Meanwhile, civil defense crews recovered the bodies of five Palestinians killed in an Israeli strike on the Bir al-Najjah area, west of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

Separately, Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the Government Media Office in Gaza, said the ongoing Israeli assault on the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, now in its sixth day, has displaced hundreds of families, leaving them without shelter.

Thawabta described the attacks as part of a “systematic Israeli policy aimed at widespread destruction, forced displacement of Palestinians, and imposing a new demographic reality by force.”

The Israeli military has demolished some 400 homes over the past six days in the Zeitoun neighborhood in the central Gaza Strip, according to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor.

Israel has killed nearly 61,900 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023. The military campaign has devastated the enclave and brought it to the verge of 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.