Gaza City: Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed more than 78 Palestinians since early Tuesday, targeting homes, tents, and schools sheltering displaced people, according to various sources.
According to Anadolu Agency, most of the attacks were concentrated in central Gaza, including an airstrike on the home of the Abu Samra family in Deir al-Balah that left 13 dead, as reported by the official Palestinian news agency Wafa. Another airstrike in the Nuseirat refugee camp resulted in 15 fatalities.
Local Al-Aqsa Radio reported that nine people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, with several individuals still missing under the rubble. An additional five people, including a child, lost their lives when Israeli forces targeted a home in Deir al-Balah, with two others killed earlier in a drone strike on the same city.
In the Nuseirat refugee camp, one person was killed in a drone attack near Al-Suwara cemetery, while medics recovered the bodies of two others killed in artillery shelling southeast of Al-Bureij camp, also in central Gaza. Further south, two Palestinians were killed in an airstrike on Qizan al-Najjar, with drone attacks claiming two others in Abasan al-Kabira and another area in southern Khan Younis. In al-Manara, east of the city, three more people were killed and several wounded in another drone strike.
West of Khan Younis, an Israeli airstrike on a displacement tent killed four Palestinians and wounded nine. One man also died from injuries sustained in an earlier strike that killed his two children days before. In northern Gaza, artillery shelling hit a school sheltering hundreds of displaced people in the Beit Lahia project area, killing four and wounding others. A drone strike targeting the Musa bin Nusair school in Gaza City's al-Daraj neighborhood killed 12 people and left others critically injured.
Two additional fatalities occurred in an airstrike on a home in Shejaiya, with another person dying in a separate strike on al-Sikka Street in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City. The Israeli army announced a broad ground offensive in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, continuing a brutal offensive against Gaza since October 2023, which has resulted in nearly 53,600 Palestinian deaths, mostly among women and children.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November 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.