By Elham Asaad Buaras
London, (The Muslim News): At least 95 Palestinians were killed on Tuesday as Israeli forces intensified their attacks across the Gaza Strip, including airstrikes on displacement tents sheltering civilians.
The Palestinian Health Ministry reports that 57,575 people have been killed and 136,879 injured since the beginning of Israel’s war on Gaza in October 2023. “Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” the ministry said, highlighting the deepening humanitarian crisis.
STRIKES ON DISPLACEMENT TENTS AND CIVILIAN SHELTERS
Tuesday’s casualties include dozens killed in Israeli strikes targeting makeshift shelters and homes across the Gaza Strip. In western Gaza City, four Palestinians were killed when Israeli forces bombed a displacement tent near the Qatari Committee headquarters. Another strike in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood killed one person and injured nine others near Al-Quds Hospital.
In Gaza City’s Zaytoun neighbourhood, five people were killed when a tent housing displaced civilians was struck. Two children died in an airstrike in Sheikh Radwan, while six others, including an infant, were killed in another bombing of a home in the same area.
In Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, two civilians were killed in a drone strike on a group of people, and a young girl died in a separate airstrike on a house east of the city.
In the al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, seven people — including a child and two women — were killed when Israeli forces targeted a tent. In another attack on Street 5, a father, mother, and their son were killed. A separate strike in the same area claimed the lives of a family of four — parents and two children — inside another tent.
Further south, a civilian was killed in a strike on Jalal Street in central Khan Younis. Four people died when a home in Tel al-Hawa, Gaza City, was targeted, while six others were killed in the Rimal neighbourhood when Israeli forces bombed another tent for the displaced. A civilian also died in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood in an attack on a gathering.
In the al-Sudaniya area of north-western Gaza, a man was shot dead while waiting for aid. One person was killed in a bombing that damaged several rooms of a house in Deir al-Balah, and another died in a strike on a displacement tent west of al-Zawaida.
Several civilians were injured when Israeli forces struck Abu Helou School in the al-Bureij refugee camp, which was housing displaced families. Two others were killed and more wounded in a drone strike on a vehicle near al-Manfalouti School in Deir al-Balah.
SOUTHERN GAZA AND REPEATED TARGETING OF SHELTERS
In southern Gaza, Israeli forces continued bombing tent areas in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, killing nine people, including a child, and injuring dozens. Three people were killed near Nasser Hospital, and another civilian was shot dead in western Khan Younis. One person was killed near al-Shuhada Mosque, and several others were wounded in a nearby tent strike.
Two people were killed in a strike on a civilian gathering near Site 17 on Khan Younis Road. In the north-western Rafah neighbourhood of al-Shakoush, Israeli forces opened fire, killing two civilians and injuring more than 35. In Mawasi al-Qarara, north of Khan Younis, a man was killed when his tent was struck. A drone also killed another civilian near Bani Suheila Square in eastern Khan Younis.
“These people were seeking refuge and safety,” said a medic in Deir al-Balah. “Instead, tents have become targets. Entire families are being erased.”
FAMINE, DISEASE, AND AID RESTRICTIONS
After nearly two years of siege and bombardment, Gaza is experiencing what the UN describes as a full-scale humanitarian catastrophe. According to a recent WFP/IPC report covering May to September, approximately 470,000 people — around 22 percent of Gaza’s population — are facing IPC Phase 5 “catastrophe” levels of hunger.
Nearly the entire population is now at IPC Phase 3 or higher, meaning widespread crisis-level food insecurity.
In May alone, 5,119 children aged six months to five years were treated for acute malnutrition, according to a June UNICEF briefing. This represents a nearly 50 percent increase from April and a 150 percent rise since February. UNICEF’s regional director, Edouard Beigbeder, said, “Every one of these cases is preventable. The food, water, and nutrition treatments they desperately need are being blocked from reaching them.”
Hospitals are dangerously low on infant formula. Doctors at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis report having less than a week’s supply remaining. Many mothers, suffering from severe malnutrition, are unable to breastfeed. One doctor said some infants resemble “skin and bones” and warned they could die simply from a lack of formula.
Water infrastructure has collapsed, with only 40 percent of drinking water facilities functioning. This has led to outbreaks of acute watery diarrhoea, jaundice, and other preventable illnesses. The World Health Organization reports that half of Gaza’s hospitals are barely operational and that healthcare facilities have suffered over 600 attacks since the war began.
James Elder, global spokesperson for UNICEF, called the situation “horrendous”. “Children are begging for food. Hospitals are overwhelmed, lacking even basic painkillers,” he said. Only a small fraction of the 500 aid lorries needed daily are being allowed into Gaza.
Carl Skau of the World Food Programme added: “Families in Gaza are starving while the food they need is sitting at the border. If we wait until after a famine is confirmed, it will already be too late.”
ISRAELI PLANS FOR POST-WAR GAZA
While the devastation continues, a senior Israeli official told the Walla news outlet that Tel Aviv may govern Gaza temporarily after the war, ruling out any role for the Palestinian Authority.
“There must be an administrative system in Gaza to run daily life. We may stay there for some time,” the official said during Prime Minister Netanyahu’s visit to the US.
“The governing system in Gaza will be run by Palestinians. But the Palestinian Authority will not run the Strip,” the official continued.
He reiterated that Israel will not end its assault until Hamas is completely removed. “Gaza must be disarmed and its leaders exiled. Another force will take control of the area and prevent the use of weapons,” he said.
SETTLER VIOLENCE AND DEMOLITIONS IN THE WEST BANK
Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, violence by Israeli settlers and military forces has escalated sharply. In Surif, near Hebron, settlers launched multiple raids, torching agricultural land, chasing residents, and physically assaulting at least two Palestinians.
According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, more than 2,150 settler attacks have occurred in the first half of 2025 alone, resulting in the deaths of four Palestinians.
In a separate incident, Israeli forces demolished a building under construction in the Salam neighbourhood of Anata, northeast of Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Governorate reported that the building, owned by Muhammad Hamza Ghaith and Yassin Ibrahim Abu Shamsiyeh, had been threatened for months.
“They came without warning, surrounded the area, and reduced everything to rubble,” said a local resident. “It’s not just bricks they’re demolishing — it’s lives and dreams.”
[Photo: Smoke rises from a commercial building after a fire broke out following Israeli airstrike in Omar Mukhtar Road in Gaza City, Gaza on July 09, 2025. As a result of the attack, houses and commercial buildings in the surrounding area were heavily damaged in al Zawiya Market Area. Photojournalist: Hamza Z. H. Qraiqea/AA]
