21.08.2025 01:05
As the Israeli army initiated the first phase of its plan to invade Gaza, 61 Palestinians, including those waiting for humanitarian aid, were killed in airstrikes on the Gaza Strip within just one day. The attacks targeted tents, homes, and areas in refugee camps where civilians were sheltering.
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In the attacks carried out by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip, 61 Palestinians lost their lives, including those waiting for aid.
ISRAEL TARGETED PALESTINIANS WAITING FOR AID
According to hospital sources and eyewitnesses, the Israeli army targeted not only the tents and houses of forcibly displaced Palestinians but also those waiting for humanitarian aid in the attacks carried out since the morning. In an attack on an area where civilians were present in the Tuffah neighborhood in the east of Gaza City, a mother and her child lost their lives.
61 PALESTINIANS LOST THEIR LIVES IN ONE DAY
In an airstrike targeting a tent housing displaced persons in Khan Younis, located in the southern Gaza Strip, 3 Palestinians, including one child, lost their lives, and many others were injured. The Israeli army targeted a tent housing forcibly displaced individuals in the Shati Refugee Camp in the west of Gaza City. In the attack, 5 people, including a couple and their three children, lost their lives.
In an airstrike on a tent located near the Islamic University in Gaza City, 4 Palestinians, including children, lost their lives. In an airstrike targeting a house in the northern town of Jabalia, 3 Palestinians were killed, and 10 others were injured.
HOMES OF CIVILIANS WERE BOMBED
The Israeli army continues to bomb and demolish civilian homes in the Zeytun and Sabra neighborhoods. In the Sabra neighborhood in the south of the city, a house was bombed, resulting in the deaths of 2 children, and there were injuries. The Israeli army targeted a foundation building where forcibly displaced individuals were staying in the Zeytun neighborhood. In the attack, 4 Palestinians from the same family were killed, and many others were injured.
After air and artillery bombardments from different regions of the Gaza Strip towards the Zeytun neighborhood, loud explosions were heard, and thick clouds of smoke were seen rising. As a result of the fire opened by the Israeli army in the Zikim area in the northwest of the Gaza Strip, 12 Palestinians providing security for humanitarian aid trucks were killed, and 30 people waiting for aid were injured.
In the Israeli attacks on the Shati Refugee Camp located in the northern Gaza City, 5 Palestinian civilians lost their lives. As part of the plan to gradually reoccupy the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army has been continuing massacres, forced displacements, and house demolitions in the Zeytun neighborhood since August 11.
ATTACKS ON NUSAYRAT REFUGEE CAMP
Israeli soldiers opened fire on those waiting for humanitarian aid in the northern part of the Nusayrat Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip. In the attack, 8 Palestinians lost their lives.
In an attack where the Israeli army bombed an apartment in the refugee camp with a helicopter, 1 Palestinian was killed, and there were injuries. In the west of the Nusayrat Camp, a house belonging to Palestinians was bombed, resulting in the deaths of 2 Palestinians, one of whom was a child. In an attack targeting a house near the bakery in the camp, 1 Palestinian lost their life.
ATTACKS ON SOUTHERN REGIONS
As a result of an aerial strike on a house belonging to a Palestinian family in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, 1 woman and her 2 children lost their lives. It was reported that one of the children was a baby. In the Mevasi area of Khan Younis, a tent housing displaced persons was targeted by a drone near the Hilal Sahra Hospital; 12 Palestinians were injured. In another airstrike in Mevasi, 6 more Palestinians lost their lives.
THE FIRST STAGE OF THE PLAN TO OCCUPY GAZA HAS BEGUN
Meanwhile, Israeli Army Spokesman Effie Defrin announced that "the first stage of the plan to occupy Gaza has begun." As part of the plan, the Israeli army has taken control of Gaza and its surroundings.
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