Scores of Palestinians were killed on Tuesday as Israel launched a large-scale ground operation in Gaza City, forcing mass displacement and deepening the humanitarian crisis.
At least 41 Palestinians have been killed since dawn Tuesday, including 37 in Gaza City, as Israeli shelling intensified against residential neighborhoods and displacement centers.
The Israeli army has announced the launch of a major ground operation to occupy Gaza City, deploying two divisions and preparing a third to join soon.
Civil defense sources reported a massacre in the General Security area, north of Gaza City, where an airstrike hit a house sheltering displaced families. Eight people were killed and more than 40 were wounded.
Rescue teams pulled eight bodies and 10 wounded from the rubble of a residential complex in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, where three families had been living. Six others were rescued alive, while many remain trapped under collapsed buildings.
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The army also bombed the vicinity of Hamama School, which shelters displaced people, and targeted the intelligence towers in northwest Gaza. Local sources said Israeli forces also deployed “booby-trapped robots” in the same area. In another attack, four people were killed when a house was bombed in the Al-Khadariyah area of the Al-Sabra neighborhood.
In central Gaza, Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat reported receiving seven bodies and 20 wounded in the past 24 hours after Israeli shelling struck civilian gatherings near an aid distribution point south of Wadi Gaza and elsewhere in the central Strip.
Operation Gideon’s Chariots 2
The Israeli army declared that its offensive in Gaza City is part of “Operation Gideon’s Chariots 2,” aimed at dismantling Hamas’s infrastructure.
“Last night, we launched another phase of Operation Gideon in the heart of Gaza City,” the army said in a statement, claiming that thousands of Hamas fighters remain in the area.
Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz posted on Tuesday, “Gaza is burning,” vowing that the military was striking “with an iron fist” to defeat Hamas and secure the release of hostages.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking before entering his trial, echoed the announcement of a large-scale operation in Gaza City.
Mass Displacement
The latest bombardments have forced thousands of residents to flee Gaza City overnight. UNRWA warned that civilians are being pushed onto “roads that lead nowhere,” stressing that there is “no safe place in Gaza” and urging immediate action to stop the escalation.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) described the situation as “systematic genocide,” warning that evacuation is impossible for the elderly, the sick, the wounded, and pregnant women.
“Those who remain are sentenced to death,” the group said, adding that the displaced are being pushed into overcrowded areas in central and southern Gaza, where there is neither safety nor essential resources.
“What is happening in Gaza is not just a humanitarian disaster, but a genocide of an entire people, committed with complete impunity,” MSF added.
The Director-General of Gaza’s Ministry of Health told Al Jazeera that nearly one million Palestinians remain in Gaza City despite the assault.
Collapse of the Health Sector
Hospitals in Gaza City are overwhelmed, with emergency rooms overcrowded and staff struggling amid severe shortages of medicines and life-saving supplies.
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The Health Ministry reported an acute shortage of blood units and components, putting emergency surgeries at further risk.
Nasser Medical Complex confirmed the deaths of two children in southern Gaza due to malnutrition and lack of medical care. On Monday, the Health Ministry reported three additional deaths from starvation, raising the toll from famine and malnutrition to 425 people, including 145 children.
Scale of the Genocide
With US support, Israel has continued its war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, in defiance of international appeals and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, the genocide has so far killed 64,905 Palestinians, wounded 164,926—most of them women and children—left more than 10,000 missing, and displaced hundreds of thousands.
The ministry also confirmed that famine alone has claimed 425 lives, including 145 children.
