Army opens fire on civilians waiting for aid in northwestern Rafah, killing 5 Palestinians and injuring dozens
Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip continued unabated Wednesday, killing at least 102 Palestinians and injuring scores more, medics said.
Medical sources told Anadolu that Gaza City hospitals received the bodies of 42 civilians killed by the Israeli bombardment of the city.
An Israeli airstrike killed two people near Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the city.
Five people, including a Palestinian couple, were killed in separate Israeli strikes on civilians and a residential unit in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.
Three people were killed and several injured in an Israeli drone strike on a residential unit in the Tel Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City.
A Palestinian mother and her child were killed when an Israeli helicopter targeted an apartment in the city's Al-Rimal neighborhood.
According to medical sources, several children were injured in Israeli airstrikes on Palestine Stadium in central Gaza City.
Another Israeli airstrike on a tower near a school in the Al-Nafaq neighborhood of the city injured several civilians.
Witnesses told Anadolu that the Israeli army continued to carry out assaults in Gaza City, detonating booby-trapped robots between homes and residential buildings.
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.
Israeli heavy vehicles, including tanks, were observed advancing into new areas in neighborhoods of northwestern Gaza City on Wednesday evening.
The witnesses told Anadolu that Israeli tanks penetrated several hundred meters at the end of Al-Jalaa Street near the Safatawi area in northern Gaza City.
They added that heavy army vehicles, including bulldozers, were also seen operating in the northwestern parts of the city around the areas of Al-Karama Towers and the Mukhabarat district.
Meanwhile, Israeli artillery and airstrikes 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 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 were killed, including a Palestinian couple and their child, 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 in southern Gaza, according to a statement from the 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 Wednesday.
The Israeli army opened fire on civilians waiting for aid in northwestern Rafah, killing five Palestinians and injuring dozens. Some of the injured are in critical condition, medical sources told Anadolu.
In the vicinity of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in western Gaza City, 13 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a civilian gathering of displaced people who had fled areas ordered evacuated by the army.
Three others were killed in a strike on a civilian gathering in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood.
Two Palestinians were killed and eight injured in an Israeli strike on an apartment near Al-Quds Hospital in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of southwestern Gaza City.
Three Palestinians were killed and 11 injured in an Israeli strike targeting a civilian gathering near Al-Sahaba Medical Complex in Gaza City.
A girl was also killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a home in the 'Block C' area of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
In Hamad City in northwestern Khan Younis, three Palestinians were killed when unexploded ordnance detonated in an area where a displaced Palestinian family was sheltering.
Four Palestinians were killed in various parts of southern Gaza, with no further details provided.
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 remained with their companions, along with 12 intensive care cases and 30 hospital staff members," the statement added.
The ministry condemned the Israeli attacks as a "criminal act" and called on all relevant parties to protect health institutions, medical personnel and patients in Gaza Governorate.
The Israeli army has killed over 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.