GAZA CITY, Palestine / ISTANBUL

The Israeli army continued to launch deadly strikes on residential neighborhoods across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 23 people, including a toddler, and injuring many others, medics said.

In the Zikim area northwest of the Gaza Strip, five Palestinians waiting for aid were killed by Israeli army fire.

Three more were killed in an airstrike on a civilian gathering in the Al-Rimal neighborhood in central Gaza City.

In the Shati refugee camp of western Gaza City, Israeli forces killed three Palestinians and injured several others in an airstrike on tents housing displaced families.

In Wadi Gaza, one Palestinian was killed and 23 others were injured when the Israeli forces shelled a crowd of people waiting for aid on Salah al-Din Street.

Two Palestinians lost their lives in another Israeli attack in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

In Gaza City, a woman was killed and several others were injured as Israeli helicopters intensified strikes on Gaza City since dawn, targeting tents in the central Yarmouk area, medical sources told Anadolu.

According to the state news agency Wafa, a toddler was also killed by Israeli strikes in the same area.

The Israeli army also shelled a civilian gathering in the Shejaiya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City, killing one woman, injuring others.

Israeli warplanes launched a series of strikes on Al-Nafaq Street, which runs from central Gaza City toward its northeastern areas, coinciding with heavy artillery shelling of the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.

In central Gaza, a Palestinian child was killed by Israeli gunfire on houses in the Bureij refugee camp.

In Deir al-Balah, Israeli drones struck a house, injuring several Palestinians.

Israeli forces also arrested a number of Palestinian fishermen off the coast of Gaza City, and blew up their boats, according to the Prisoner’s Media Office.

Two Palestinians seeking aid were also killed by Israeli army fire in northwestern Rafah, southern Gaza Strip.

In northern Khan Younis, the Israeli army opened fire on civilians, resulting in the death of a Palestinian.

Meanwhile, civil defense crews recovered the bodies of two Palestinians east of the city after an Israeli strike.

The Israeli army has continued a brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip, killing more than 64,700 Palestinians since October 2023. 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.