Hospitals in Gaza report 23 Palestinians killed since dawn, while UNRWA warns fuel will run out within 48 hours amid intensifying Israeli operations.
At least 23 Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation forces since dawn on Monday, including 21 in Gaza City, where the humanitarian system is on the verge of collapse, Al-Jazeera reported, citing hospital sources.
According to Al-Jazeera, Israeli forces blew up residential buildings north of the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
Emergency services said one person was killed and several others wounded in an Israeli drone strike on Abu Hasira Street, west of the city.
Intense drone activity was reported in Gaza’s skies, with heavy gunfire heard around the Al-Shifa Medical Complex. A day earlier, occupation forces had created fire belts around the hospital.
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Al-Jazeera also reported that several Israeli military vehicles advanced near the UN headquarters on Al-Nasr Street, west of Gaza City. Israeli airstrikes also destroyed homes in the Al-Tawbah area of the Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of the city.
According to reports, residents and displaced families were given neither sufficient time to evacuate nor the chance to recover their belongings before the homes were demolished.
The Nasser Medical Complex said in a statement that one person was killed and several others were injured while waiting for aid near a distribution center north of Rafah.
In Gaza City, quadcopter drones dropped bombs on homes in the Al-Rimal neighborhood in the west and Al-Sabra in the south. In the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli forces used explosive-laden drones to target residential areas in the Al-Katiba district of central Khan Yunis.
Meanwhile, Amjad Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGO Network in Gaza, said the aid allowed into the Strip remains far below minimum humanitarian needs. He accused Israel of forcing civilians to flee by depriving them of basic services.
Humanitarian Collapse
UNRWA media adviser Adnan Abu Hasna warned that Gaza City is facing a total collapse of its humanitarian system, adding that fuel supplies are expected to run out within 48 hours.
He noted that famine has spread into central and southern Gaza, where tens of thousands of displaced people are now sleeping in the streets without tents or shelter.
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On September 16, the Israeli army announced the launch of a “large-scale ground operation” involving regular and reserve forces from the 98th, 162nd, and 36th divisions.
Previously, on August 8, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a plan to gradually reoccupy the entire Gaza Strip, starting with Gaza City, home to around one million Palestinians.
On August 11, the army began its assault from the Zeitoun neighborhood in an operation dubbed ‘Gideon Chariots 2’. The campaign has included demolishing homes with booby-trapped robots, artillery barrages, indiscriminate gunfire, and mass forced displacement.
With American support, Israel has been carrying out genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, killing more than 66,000 people and wounding over 168,000 — most of them women and children. The famine alone has taken 442 lives, including 147 children.
(PC, AJA)
