The shelling focused on Jabalia, Khan Yunis, Rafah, and Gaza City, resulting in casualties, including children, women, and siblings. One Palestinian was killed and four others were injured in a shelling that targeted the Al-Jurn area in Jabalia, another Palestinian in Qizan Rashwan in Khan Yunis, and four in the northwest of the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, a shelling of a barbershop in Khan Yunis resulted in the deaths of six others, including a child and two siblings.
In other massacres, ten Palestinians were killed at dawn when a home belonging to the Baraka family was targeted east of Khan Younis, and two members of the Abu Aker family were killed in a bombing of the Al-Nasr neighborhood in Rafah. Meanwhile, a bombing of the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood east of Gaza City killed eight people, while a tent for displaced people in the same neighborhood was targeted, leaving four dead. A drone also targeted a tent for displaced people in the Al-Tawam area, killing two and wounding six. The escalation culminated in a massacre in Tel al-Zaatar, north of the Gaza Strip, that left 12 dead.
The Israeli occupation forces carried out successive house demolitions in Rafah, Zeitoun, and Shuja'iyya, accompanied by heavy gunfire and continuous airstrikes.
Women and children victims take center stage
In this context, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights announced that Israel has killed approximately 595 children and 308 women since resuming its war on March 18, noting that women and children topped the list of victims amid the renewed military offensive.
The center explained that the total number of child martyrs since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on Gaza has reached 18,044 children, while the number of women has reached 12,402, in addition to the martyrdom of 825 infants and 274 children who were born during the war and were martyred during it.
The center emphasized that "the genocide did not stop even during the temporary ceasefire agreement," and its director, Raji Sourani, considered that "the martyrdom of approximately 18,000 children and 13,000 women without clear international condemnation is a grave moral and humanitarian disgrace."