Various areas of the Gaza Strip experienced violent Israeli airstrikes, with the most intense targeting the Jabalia refugee camp and Beit Lahia town in the northern sector. Palestinian local sources confirmed the killing of more than 75 people in an Israeli bombing that targeted two houses populated by dozens of displaced individuals in Beit Lahia during the past 24 hours.
In a related context, the World Food Programme warned of an escalating hunger crisis in the Strip, with basic commodity prices rising by over 1,000 percent. The program managed to deliver some flour to bakeries in Gaza this week.
Although seven bakeries in central Gaza recently resumed operations, they continue to open and close intermittently due to flour and fuel shortages. Bread remains the lifeline for many families in Gaza, often being the only available food.
Different areas of the Strip witnessed several Israeli bombardments resulting in human casualties. Seven Palestinians were killed and others wounded in a strike on a house in the Rimal area west of Gaza City on Saturday dawn. Eight people were also killed in another strike targeting a residential apartment in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood northwest of the city.
In the southern sector, four Palestinians were killed, including two workers from the global central kitchen, after a strike targeted their vehicle on Salah El-Din Street northeast of Khan Younis city.
The humanitarian suffering in the Gaza Strip continues amid ongoing military escalation and an increasingly critical humanitarian crisis.