IOF resumes massacres in Gaza, killing 70 Palestinians since dawn
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At least 70 Palestinians were killed in ongoing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, with multiple attacks targeting aid distribution points and civilian homes.
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A Palestinian woman mourns over the body of a child who was killed in an Israeli military strike on Gaza, at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Thursday, June 19, 2025 (AP)
The Israeli occupation continues its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip today, Friday, with Palestinian media sources, citing Gaza hospitals, reporting that 70 martyrs have been killed, including 25 people waiting for humanitarian aid since dawn.
Seven people were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a group in Gaza City's Al-Nasr neighborhood, while others were killed and injured when occupation forces struck a gathering near Darabih roundabout by Asia Mosque in the western part of the city.
Earlier today, Israeli occupation forces carried out another series of massacres against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.
According to Al Mayadeen's correspondent, 12 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit a home in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, while three others were killed and several more wounded when a drone struck civilians near the Sheikh Radwan cemetery west of Gaza City.
Two Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Al-Adini family home east of Deir al-Balah, while three others were killed in an Israeli attack on a house in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood northeast of Gaza.
An Israeli strike also targeted a humanitarian aid center northwest of Rafah in southern Gaza, killing five civilians and wounding several others as part of an ongoing pattern of attacks against relief distribution points and displaced civilians.
Aid distribution points turned death traps
The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas stated in a press release that what were supposed to be aid distribution points have become "death traps", holding the Israeli occupation fully responsible for what it called the "daily crimes" occurring around these locations.
Hamas further stated that "the occupation's massacres against civilians in displacement camps and near criminal aid control checkpoints represent a deliberate escalation of the genocidal war."
Earlier on Thursday, the Gaza Health Ministry detailed that hospitals received 12 martyrs and more than 172 injuries from Israeli attacks near aid distribution points.
On June 18, 29 Palestinians were killed while waiting for aid, near a facility operated by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli-US-backed aid mechanism that has been central to a militarized model imposed by "Israel" on Palestinians who have been deprived of humanitarian aid for more than 3 months.
