TEHRAN – The Israeli regime is escalating its attack on Gaza as the blockade tightens, aid is limited and casualties rise.
The Zionist regime launched a new wave of attacks across the Gaza Strip early Sunday, hitting several cities with airstrikes and artillery shelling. Residents reported the heaviest shelling in weeks, with explosions shaking homes from Rafah in the south to Beit Lahiya in the north.
In Rafah, regime warplanes carried out multiple air strikes, and artillery units shelled nearby areas. Similar attacks were reported east of Khan Yunis and Deir Albara, where occupation forces also carried out destruction.
A Palestinian man has been killed in a drone attack in Gaza City’s Shujaya district, according to medical personnel at Al-Ahly Arab Hospital. The nearby Zeitoun district has faced continued destruction since early Sunday as regime forces expanded their sabotage operations across the region.
Aid remains severely limited
The humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate under the Israeli regime’s blockade. The United Nations has announced that more than 16,500 Palestinians in need of specialized medical care remain trapped within the Gaza Strip and unable to leave for treatment.
Just 149 aid trucks entered Gaza on a single day this week, far below the daily average of 600 promised in the first phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire plan. Gaza’s media office said the actual average since the ceasefire began was just 145 trucks per day, most of them carrying staple food and limited medical supplies.
According to reporters there, the regime has only allowed heavy equipment into the Gaza Strip to search for and retrieve Israeli prisoners, denying its use to clear debris or rescue Palestinian victims. Roads across the Strip remain buried under rubble, and many areas remain inaccessible.
Under the terms of the ceasefire, the regime was also required to allow machines to retrieve Palestinian bodies, but this condition has not yet been met.
lives lost immeasurably
More than three million years of human life have been lost in Gaza since the genocide began, according to a new study published in The Lancet. The study analyzed the deaths of more than 60,000 Palestinians between October 2023 and July 2025 and estimated that the lives lost were equivalent to an average of 51 years.
Most of the victims were civilians, with more than 1 million years of their lives being children under the age of 15. The study noted that the numbers are conservative and only count deaths directly from airstrikes and shelling, not from hunger, disease or the collapse of Gaza’s health care system.
Change of line and continued violation
The administration’s Strategy Minister, Ron Dermer, hinted at the possibility of expanding the occupied territory in the Gaza Strip, the so-called “Yellow Line,” and hinted at new violations of the terms of the ceasefire.
Meanwhile, the blockade remains in place, and thousands of homeless Palestinians are building shelters out of mud amid a severe shortage of construction materials.
Hamas rejects US claims
The Hamas resistance movement has rejected a recent statement from US Central Command claiming that aid trucks were looted in Gaza. Hamas called the claims baseless and said they were meant to justify the US government’s support for the ongoing blockade.
Hamas said in a statement that Gaza’s police and security forces had lost more than 1,000 members while convoying humanitarian aid vehicles and securing aid to civilians. It added that aid groups and drivers had not reported such incidents and said the US video evidence was fabricated.
Hamas also accused the US government of ignoring documented crimes by Israeli occupation forces, including the killing of 254 Palestinians, 91% of them civilians, since the beginning of the ceasefire. The movement claimed that U.S. surveillance drones that it claimed captured “looting material” somehow failed to record the regime’s daily shelling, destruction of homes, and break-ins.
Hamas concluded that “the United States does not need any more drones to monitor crime.” “We need the conscience and courage to stop condoning the violations and ongoing invasions of the occupying forces.”