Israeli airstrikes across Gaza have killed at least 23 people today, including two children, as attacks hit multiple neighborhoods across the region. Among the victims is 11-year-old Ghada al-Razayna, who, along with her father Ali al-Razayna, was killed when their tent in Deir el-Balah was bombed, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. Another person was killed in an airstrike on the Shati refugee camp near Gaza City.
The latest wave of attacks targeted Gaza City’s Tuffah and Zeitoun neighborhoods, the southern part of Khan Younis, and al-Mawasi, an area designated as a safe zone. At least 21 people, including six children, six women, and a Palestinian Red Crescent paramedic, were killed in these strikes. The paramedic was reportedly killed while evacuating the injured from al-Mawasi.
The violence has left residents across Gaza terrified to leave their homes, as the airstrikes occur unpredictably and without warning. Crossings through the Rafah border are expected to reopen today, after the Palestinian Red Crescent Society had earlier canceled the evacuation of patients and the wounded.
Meanwhile, a young Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli forces during a raid in Jericho in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday evening. Since October 2023, Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed at least 71,824 Palestinians and wounded 171,608, while 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023 attacks, with around 250 taken captive.
