ANKARA

At least 63 Palestinians were killed in a new wave of deadly Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, as Israel escalated its genocidal war on civilians in the enclave, medics said.

The official news agency Wafa, citing medical sources, said 28 Palestinians waiting to obtain humanitarian aid were killed by Israeli army fire in central and southern Gaza early Thursday.

Israeli warplanes also bombed the Mustafa Hafez School in western Gaza City, where hundreds of displaced civilians have sheltered, leaving 13 people dead and dozens injured, Wafa said.

In the central city of Beit Lahia, three people were killed in artillery shelling targeting a gathering of civilians, medics said.

Three more people, including a woman, were killed and several others injured in a strike on tents for displaced families in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Another Palestinian was killed and three others were wounded in a separate Israeli strike near a care center in Jabalia in northern Gaza.
Wafa, however, did not specify where the other victims were killed.

Despite international calls for a ceasefire, the Israeli army has pursued a genocidal war on Gaza, killing more than 57,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, since October 2023.

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.