At least 90 killed in latest Israeli attacks on Gaza’s refugee camp

Israel has increased its artillery bombardment of Rafah and Khan Younis

Over 100 people have been injured and at least 90 people have died as a result of the most recent Israeli attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the enclave’s Health Ministry said that the strikes on Sunday affected a residential block in the town of Jabalia that belonged to the al-Barsh and Alwan families.

According to Wafa’s report, there were women and children among the dead, and there were still dozens missing.

More bodies were thought to be under the debris as first responders and locals looked for the injured.

Numerous injured parties, including kids, were transported to adjacent medical facilities, which are already overflowing with patients.

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According to a group official who spoke to the Reuters news agency, one of the dead was the son of Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Dawoud Shehab.

He stated over the phone, “We think there are a lot of dead people under the rubble, but the intensity of Israeli fire makes it impossible to remove the rubble and recover them.”

In Rafah, south of Gaza, an Israeli airstrike on a house resulted in the deaths of at least four Palestinians, according to medics in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, where at least 12 Palestinians were killed and scores injured.

Since October 7, there have been roughly 19,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza. Israel claims that day 1,147 people died on its soil.

Meanwhile, Israel has also ramped up its artillery shelling in southern Gaza, hitting the cities of Khan Younis and Rafah, where the majority of displaced Palestinians are sheltering.

The stepping up of bombardments in the south has worsened the humanitarian situation, with starving people scrambling for food and water, grabbing them from aid trucks in desperation.

Israel on Sunday said it will reopen the Karem Abu Salem Crossing in the east but it is unclear whether supplies have crossed through there yet.

The United Nations estimates that 1.9 million people – about 80 percent of Gaza’s population – have been displaced by the war.

“I would not be surprised if people start dying of hunger, or a combination of hunger, disease, weak immunity,” said Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA.