Israel attacks Gaza ‘humanitarian zone,’ 84 massacred in 24 hours

Israel has killed 84 Palestinians and wounded over 320 throughout the besieged Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

In the southern city of Khan Yunis, the death toll continues to rise as the Israeli military keeps using tanks and fighter jets to strike the heavily populated areas.

The regime had designated those areas as a protected humanitarian zone for displaced Palestinians.

Israeli forces began bombarding the southern city early on Monday, forcing thousands of people to flee the city.

Only in Khan Yunis, the city where Israel’s military claimed it was “eliminating terrorists in tank and aerial strikes,” at least 89 Palestinians have been killed according to a statement by the Gaza Government Media Office. It said more than 260 others have also been wounded.

That figure does not include the more than 68 people who are still missing under the rubble.

Search teams and paramedics say they are unable to reach areas where the regime’s tanks and fighter jets keep attacking heavily populated areas in the eastern part of the city.

Right now there are hundreds of people stuck in that area calling the civil defense agency to try to get themselves out as soon as possible. But nothing has happened,” Al Jazeera quoted a local journalist as saying.

Medics at Nasser Hospital, the only medical facility serving Khan Yunis and Rafah, say the death toll continues to rise with artillery fire ongoing in the city. They are urgently asking for any available medical supplies and blood donations to treat the many injured.

The regional director for Middle East and North Africa for the UN children’s agency UNICEF says “two clearly marked vehicles have been hit with live ammunition while waiting at a designated holding point near the Wadi Gaza checkpoint."

“They were en route to reunite five children, including a baby, with their father,” Adele Khodr posted on X. “One vehicle was struck by three bullets, but fortunately no injuries occurred. The team managed to proceed with the mission and safely deliver the children.”

An estimated 15,000 Palestinian children have been killed since Israel launched its campaign of death and destruction in Gaza in early October. UNICEF says the figure is likely far higher with thousands of children missing throughout the besieged territory.

Meanwhile, al-Mawasi, another “safe humanitarian zone” has come under intense bombardment and ground offensive by Israeli forces, according to Al-Jazeera.

The situation in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza is also grim as the regime’s tanks continue to push through the area and destroy residential houses.

Earlier reports said that the military forces attacked a house at the entrance to the camp,  camp, killing at least nine people, including four children.

Al Jazeera released video footage, showing blood splattered on the walls of the house in the aftermath of the attack.

The Gaza Media Office has also released new figures that show at least 12,000 wounded people, in addition to 3,000 patients with various diseases, need to travel abroad for treatment.

The Rafah border crossing to Egypt, which has been closed by Israel since early May, was the only route out of the besieged coastal enclave.

According to the Gaza Health Ministry’s latest figures, at least 39,090 people have been killed since Israel launched At least 90,147 people were also wounded.

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