More than 50 additional Palestinians have been killed in the latest Israeli airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip. The brutal onslaught by Israeli occupation forces continues across the territory, resulting in a fresh surge of casualties in a single day.
According to Al Jazeera, the total death toll from Israeli aggression in Gaza has now reached approximately 50,700.
The media outlet reported that after ordering residents in five areas of Deir al-Balah to evacuate, Israel launched massive new airstrikes on central Gaza. Several Palestinians, including a journalist, were killed in these latest attacks.
The bombardment came just a day after another round of Israeli airstrikes killed more than 50 people in the territory on Sunday.
Separately, Anadolu Agency reported that ten people, including eight children, were killed and several others injured by Israeli artillery shelling on Al-Nakhil Street in eastern Gaza City, according to a medical source.
The same source said five people were also killed in Israeli airstrikes on Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. Another source reported that three people died in airstrikes targeting Shuja’iyya in eastern Gaza City.
In Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, two more people were killed and several injured after an Israeli airstrike hit a house near Ain Jalut School. Four others died in artillery shelling in the Salam neighborhood of Jabalia in northern Gaza.
In another attack, a drone strike on a displacement camp in the Zawaida area of central Gaza killed one person and injured several others, according to medical sources.
In Khan Younis in southern Gaza, eight people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential house. Another civilian was killed in a separate attack on a group of people in the Kizan Raswan area of the same city.
Israeli gunfire also killed a Palestinian child and injured several others at a displacement shelter in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis. Further artillery shelling in the eastern Abu Asran neighborhood of the city left one person dead and four more wounded.
The escalation follows a statement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who, during an ongoing effort to implement a plan to displace Palestinians from Gaza, vowed to intensify attacks on the enclave.