TEHRAN – Israeli occupation regime forces continue their relentless campaign of violence against civilians in Gaza.
Despite US President Donald Trump’s recent insistence that Israel should stop bombing Gaza “immediately”, reports from the ground show that indiscriminate attacks continue unabated.
As ceasefire negotiations in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh enter their third day, the Gaza Health Ministry says a new wave of attacks has killed nearly 12 Palestinians, including women and children, and injured 61 others in the past 24 hours. Rescue teams also recovered additional bodies from under the rubble of earlier attacks.
In Gaza City, rescue teams recovered two bodies following the occupation regime’s air raids on Al-Jara and Nasr districts.
Meanwhile, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) detonated a car bomb in the Sabra area, west of Gaza City. The tactic has drawn international condemnation for its indiscriminate impact on civilians. IOF also carried out attacks using quadcopter drones and heavy artillery.
Witnesses in the south reported that people waiting for food aid were again hit by IOF fires.
The humanitarian crisis continues to spiral. Dr. Rick Pieperkorn of the World Health Organization, which represents the occupied Palestinian territories, described scenes of “unimaginable suffering”.
Speaking from Gaza, he said hospitals were flooded with trauma victims, many of them children, suffering from severe burns, contusions and amputations.
“We were delivering medical supplies to Al Ahly Hospital when there was shelling all around us,” Pieperkorn said.
“We saw girls with severe burns, boys gasping for air, and a steady stream of trauma patients.”
Dr. Hanan Balki, WHO Regional Director, added that Gaza’s health infrastructure is crumbling due to constant attacks. Only 14 of the 36 hospitals are even partially functional, and only a third of the Strip’s 176 primary care centers are still operational. Electricity, clean water, and medicine are in short supply, and repaired facilities often fail again within days.
Malnutrition is also exacerbating the crisis. According to WHO data, 70% of pregnant women and women who have recently given birth are acutely malnourished, and one in five newborns are born with low birth weight or premature birth.
Tragedy struck again in Rafah when IOF opened fire on civilians waiting near a food distribution center. At least one person was killed and several others injured, local medical officials said. One of the victims suffered serious head injuries, Wafa news agency reported.
These attacks on aid seekers are part of a broader pattern. The Gaza government media office reports that on average, two medical workers and one journalist are killed every three days. Every day, more than 200 Palestinians are injured and 13 lose limbs due to bombing and shelling. The statement also noted that one health facility is targeted or damaged every day.
Although Israeli regime officials have publicly maintained that the operation was limited to “defensive operations,” reports on the ground suggest the opposite.
Occupation forces expanded their ground invasion into central Gaza City, accompanied by powerful explosions believed to have originated from remotely controlled armored vehicles loaded with explosives.
Residents said the entire area was reduced to rubble, with red and orange flashes illuminating the night sky from the burning rubble.
Families trapped in these areas spoke of persistent drone activity and systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure. Although occupation forces have withdrawn from some small areas, they continue to tighten control over key intersections and urban routes, deepening the humanitarian disaster.
President Trump’s calls to halt airstrikes appear to have done little to slow the Israeli regime’s violence, which shows no signs of slowing.
Evidence emerging from Gaza paints a grim picture, with hospitals collapsed, aid vehicles targeted, children injured and civilians killed in their homes. Despite international appeals and growing global outrage, the devastation in Gaza continues. It’s a stark reminder of how far reality is from rhetoric.
“Death is everywhere in Gaza. It’s not just a feeling, it’s palpable. It’s lurking, it’s floating, it hits everyone, everywhere,” said Claire Magone, executive director of the French branch of medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), after returning from a week-long visit to the Palestinian enclave.
Magone told French newspaper Le Monde that he visited an MSF team treating patients as “tanks approached, drones flew over the neighborhood and water was cut off.”
She told Le Monde: “The (occupation) forces are carrying out a strangulation strategy, for example by attacking water tankers and cutting off all essential services, as they did against one of our clearly identified vehicles in mid-September.”
A UNICEF statement on Wednesday stressed: “A staggering 64,000 children have reportedly been killed or seriously injured across the Gaza Strip in the past two years, including at least 1,000 infants. It is unknown how many more are dying from preventable diseases or buried under rubble.”
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation regime has killed more than 67,183 Palestinians and injured nearly 170,000, according to figures released by the Gaza Ministry of Health. Experts say these staggering numbers are lower than the actual number of casualties, highlighting the depth of the U.S.-backed genocide.