At least 64 Palestinians killed in fresh Israeli strikes across Gaza Strip

The Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip continued unabated on Wednesday, killing at least 64 Palestinians and injuring scores more, medics said.

Medical sources told Anadolu that Gaza City hospitals received the bodies of 32 civilians killed by Israeli bombardment of the city. They explained that 23 bodies were transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital, seven to Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital and two to Al-Quds Hospital.

An Israeli airstrike killed two more people near the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the same city.

Five more people, including a Palestinian couple, were killed in separate Israeli strikes on civilians and a residential unit in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.

Three people, one of them a woman, were killed and several others injured in an Israeli drone strike on a residential unit in the Tel Hawa neighborhood of western Gaza City.

A Palestinian mother and her child were killed when an Israeli helicopter targeted a residential apartment in the city’s Al-Rimal neighborhood.

According to medical sources, several children were injured in Israeli airstrikes on the Palestine Stadium in central Gaza City.Another Israeli airstrike on a tower near a school in the Al-Nafaq neighborhood of the same city injured several civilians.

Witnesses told Anadolu that the Israeli army continued to carry out military assaults in Gaza City, detonating booby-trapped robots between homes and residential buildings in southern Gaza City and the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in the north.

On Tuesday, the Israeli army launched a new phase of its ground offensive in Gaza City as part of a broader strategy to reoccupy the entire city. However, local sources confirm that no ground incursion had taken place.Meanwhile, Israeli artillery and airstrikes were intensified, forcing residents to flee to the south, witnesses said.

- Deadly attacks

In northern Gaza, five people lost their lives in Israeli strikes on homes in the Shati refugee camp. Several other people remained missing and trapped under the rubble of the destroyed buildings, according to medics.

In central Gaza, a pregnant woman, her husband, and child were killed, and others were injured in Israeli airstrikes on a home in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

The Israeli army also shelled a multistory residential tower in the camp, injuring many civilians.

In southern Gaza, five people, including a Palestinian couple and their child, were killed when Israeli warplanes hit a tent sheltering displaced civilians in Al-Mawasi in Khan Younis.

A Palestinian child was killed by Israeli army fire in the same area.

Another child lost his life when Israeli artillery shelled a refugee camp in Hamad Town in southern Gaza, according to a statement from Kuwait Specialized Hospital in Rafah.

Witnesses said the southern and central parts of Khan Younis came under heavy artillery shelling and fire from Israeli forces on Wednesday.

The Israeli army opened fire on civilians waiting for aid delivery in northwestern Rafah, killing five Palestinians and injuring dozens. Some of the injured civilians are in critical condition, medical sources told Anadolu.

- Hospitals under attack

According to the Gaza Health Ministry on Wednesday, the Israeli army targeted Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital in Gaza City late Tuesday in three separate strikes.

The hospital was treating 80 patients across various specialties, in addition to four pediatric intensive care cases and eight neonatal intensive care cases, the ministry said.

“As a result of the bombing, 40 patients left the hospital seeking safe places to protect their children, while 40 patients remain with their companions, along with 12 intensive care cases and 30 hospital staff members,” the statement added.

The ministry condemned the Israeli attack on the hospital as a “criminal act” and called on all relevant parties to protect health institutions, medical personnel, and patients in the Gaza Governorate.

The Israeli army has killed almost 65,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, in Gaza since October 2023. The relentless bombardment has rendered the enclave uninhabitable and led to starvation and the spread of diseases.