At least 47 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip since early Saturday morning, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which also warned that a worsening fuel crisis is pushing the last operational hospitals to the brink of collapse.
The Israeli military launched a series of air and drone strikes targeting multiple civilian areas, including shelters, schools, and residential homes in different parts of the besieged enclave.
In northern Gaza, seven people were killed and several others wounded after an Israeli strike hit the Imam al-Shafi’i School, which was housing displaced families in the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City.
Elsewhere in Gaza City’s Sheikh al-Radwan neighborhood, three Palestinians—including two children—were killed when an Israeli warplane struck a house adjacent to the Al-Muhabbain School, another shelter for displaced people. The school suffered structural damage, and several nearby tents were destroyed in the blast.
In southern Gaza, a doctor and his four sons were killed when an Israeli drone targeted a tent along Hanin Street in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, sparking a fire that spread to surrounding shelters. In a separate drone strike near the Mawasi port, a father and his son were also killed while sheltering in a tent.
Near Rafah, the Nasser Medical Complex confirmed that nine civilians, including three children, were killed by Israeli fire near an aid distribution site north of the city.
In central Gaza, two people were killed in a helicopter strike on a home in the Maghazi refugee camp, while two brothers were killed in the Al-Bureij camp when Israeli helicopters bombed an apartment within a residential building. Additional strikes were reported in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.
Meanwhile, the Gaza Health Ministry raised alarm over a deepening fuel crisis that it says is threatening to shut down the last remaining functioning hospitals. The ministry noted a surge in critically injured patients requiring urgent care, but with fuel supplies dwindling, hospitals are struggling to keep generators running.
Officials blamed Israel’s continued restrictions on fuel entry, calling it part of a deliberate strategy of rationing, which they warned could soon result in a complete breakdown of Gaza’s already fragile healthcare system.
