TEHRAN – Dozens of people, including women and children, have been killed and injured amid merciless Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.
Gaza’s civil defense reports deaths and injuries from Israeli attacks across multiple locations across the populated coastal enclave.
Earlier on Monday, 19 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in a fierce Israeli airstrike in residential areas in northern Gaza, part of a continuous months of escalation.
Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal also reported that rescuers had recovered 15 bodies and 10 injured individuals from three apartments in the multi-storey homebuilding northwest of Gaza city.
While residents were sleeping, the building was hit directly by three missiles, and no advance warning was issued.
Basic also confirmed that four people were killed and four more injured in a strike at the family home in Beit Rahia.
He said the home protects dozens of displaced people, with some still missing under the wreckage.
Additional reports from Gaza show that the death toll from previous Israeli attacks at homes in the Sultan area west of Beitrahia in northern Gaza has risen to six.
Earthly journalists have confirmed the deaths after an Israeli bomb was dropped in the southwest of Khan Eunice in southern Gaza.
Overnight, various parts of Gaza were exposed to the waves of intense Israeli airstrikes. The house was destroyed in Rafa in southern Gaza and was destroyed in a neighbourhood northeast of Gaza city using powerful explosives.
Amidst the suffocating siege of Israel, Hamas reaffirmed its refusal to use humanitarian aid as a means of political coercion, consistent with the UN’s stance on contracts that compromise humanitarian standards.
The administration said it could be able to enter Gaza at the end of the month under Israeli military oversight to pressure Hamas.
In a statement, the Palestinian resistance urged the international community not to be misled by what is called the false narrative of the occupation regime, and called for immediate action to completely lift the siege.
“The continued blockade of aid and obstruction of the humanitarian distribution system clearly reveal the creation of deliberate hunger for occupation in Gaza,” the statement said.
The occupying regime’s army has blocked access to hospital-designated fuel storage facilities, citing locations within the so-called “red zone.”
Gaza’s health ministry warned that the policy “threatening the closure of critical health facilities” and said that the remaining fuel reserves will only be enough for three more days.
The Gaza government media office also criticised Israel’s actions and denounced attempts to use aid as a “tool for political intimidation.”
In a statement, the office said, “We firmly reject Israel’s plan to impose a new mechanism of aid distribution, controlled by occupying forces that transform humanitarian relief into political weapons.”
The statement emphasized that mechanisms forced on the Gaza Strip will strengthen siege and starvation policies.
“We emphasize the need for the distribution of aid through neutral international organizations and evaluate all principled positions opposed to this malicious program,” the office added.
Human rights groups have denounced the international silence and lack of action on Israeli aid restrictions, which they call as part of a US-backed Israeli campaign aimed at extermination of the Palestinian people.