By Nadine Osman
London, (The Muslim News): At least 88 Palestinians, including people waiting for aid, were killed by Israeli fire across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to medical officials.
The Gaza Health Ministry reported that 76 bodies and 281 wounded were brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours. Since Israel launched its onslaught on the enclave in October 2023, at least 63,633 people have been killed, with a further 160,914 injured.
Thirteen Palestinians, including three children, died of starvation on Tuesday, highlighting the severe famine in the territory.
“Many victims are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” the ministry added.
Israeli strikes targeted residential areas across Gaza City on Tuesday. Four people were killed in Jabalia, northern Gaza, when Israeli drones struck civilians.
Nine died in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, while 14 were killed in a strike on a building in Tel Hawa.
Three more were killed at an aid distribution point in the same district, and another two when shells struck a tent in western Gaza City.
Civil defence teams later retrieved the bodies of 11 people, including three children and two women, from a home in the al-Daraj neighbourhood. Seven more children remain trapped beneath the rubble, among them a 16-month-old baby.
Israeli warplanes also struck another aid distribution site in Al-Rimal, killing three, while troops opened fire on civilians waiting for aid at the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, leaving nine dead.
In Deir al-Balah, one man succumbed to injuries sustained from Israeli gunfire while waiting for aid, and another was killed in a drone strike on the Bureij refugee camp.
In the south, Israeli forces opened fire on civilians queuing for aid in Khan Younis, killing seven. A further four people died in separate strikes in the city, according to doctors at Nasser Medical Complex.
A drone strike in the al-Attar area west of Khan Younis killed 12 people, including seven children, when it hit a civilian car and a tent sheltering displaced families.
In a separate incident, a Palestinian woman collecting drinking water near the Hamad Towers was killed by an Israeli quadcopter drone.
Two more Palestinians died in a strike near Al-Shafi’i Mosque, and a young man succumbed to earlier wounds in Khan Younis.
Local authorities confirmed that Palestinian cameraman Rasmi Jihad Salem, who worked for Manara Media Company, was killed in a drone strike on Abu al-Amin Street near al-Jalaa Square in Gaza City. Three others were injured in the same attack.
His death brings the number of journalists killed in Gaza since October 2023 to 248, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
The ongoing assault, now in its 23rd month, has left Gaza on the brink of famine. Israel’s attacks have reduced swathes of the enclave to rubble while blocking access to food, clean water, and medicine.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice.
Israel steals more Palestinian lands in West Bank
Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, Israel has confiscated over 112 acres of Palestinian land for settlement expansion, according to the Palestinian Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission.
The seized territory declared “state land” by Israeli authorities, lies east of Qalqilya and west of Nablus, encompassing areas of the Palestinian towns of Jit, Far’ata, and Tell. It also includes the outpost of Havat Gilad, established illegally in 2003.
Israel begun mobilising 60,000 reservists to occupy Gaza City
The Israeli army confirmed on Tuesday that it has begun mobilising 60,000 reservists in preparation for the planned occupation of Gaza City, signalling a major escalation in its offensive.
Reservists will receive weapons, tactical gear, and training in both urban and open-terrain combat. According to Maariv, the mobilisation will involve three to four days of drills before many reservists are reassigned to replace frontline troops currently stationed on Israel’s northern border.
[Photo: Jewish illegal settlers, under the protection of Israeli forces, seize a house belonging to the Palestinian Nasir al-Din family in the Old City of Hebron, West Bank, on September 02, 2025. The settlers brought equipment and water to prepare the house for use and hung Israeli flags on the building. Photojournalist: Amer Shallodi/AA]
