[News] Horrific Massacres as Israeli Airstrikes Pound Gaza Shelters and Hospitals

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Horrific Massacres as Israeli Airstrikes Pound Gaza Shelters and HospitalsJune
30, 2025
Israel committed horrific massacres in Gaza. (Photo: via QNN)

*By Palestine Chronicle Staff
<https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff>*

At least 71 Palestinians were killed in one day as Israel bombs schools,
hospitals, and aid centers sheltering displaced civilians.

At least 21 Palestinians—mostly women and children—were killed, and 30
others injured, in initial estimates following Israeli shelling of the Mina
area west of Gaza City, Al-Jazeera reported, citing hospital sources.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army has ordered residents in 18 neighborhoods
across northern Gaza to evacuate their homes.

With western Gaza increasingly overcrowded due to repeated waves of
displacement caused by ongoing Israeli assaults on the eastern and southern
parts of the city, many families have sought refuge near the beaches and
port.

Makeshift camps have begun to emerge there, offering no access to basic
life necessities, as residents are relentlessly chased from one location to
another.

In a statement, the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas condemned the
escalation, describing the intensified assaults on Gaza City as “brutal”
and accusing the Israeli military of committing war crimes and engaging in
systematic ethnic cleansing.

The statement urged the international community to act against Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who it said is violating international
law while attempting to obscure his failure to achieve military objectives.

Hospitals in Gaza reported that 71 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli
airstrikes across the Strip since early Monday. Among the targets were
schools sheltering displaced people, aid centers, and tent encampments. Of
the fatalities, 48 were reported in Gaza City and northern Gaza.

At Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, medical officials said an Israeli strike
targeting aid workers southwest of the city killed 13 people and wounded
dozens more.

Another 13 were killed when Israeli warplanes bombed an aid warehouse in
the Zeitoun neighborhood of southern Gaza City, according to Al-Ahli
Baptist Hospital sources. The airstrike caused major destruction to the
facility.

In Jabaliya al-Balad, in northern Gaza, Israeli forces struck an area near
Halawa roundabout, killing four and injuring several others. Red Crescent
teams recovered the bodies and transported the wounded to Al-Shifa Hospital.

Al-Jazeera’s correspondent reported mass displacement from the northern
Gaza Strip amid intense Israeli bombardment of homes, shelters, and
civilian gathering points.

The Israeli army has issued evacuation orders for neighborhoods including
eastern Zaytoun, Jabaliya, Tuffah, Daraj, and Sabra, instructing residents
to move toward the Mawasi area via Rashid Road—despite continued airstrikes
on these supposedly “safe” zones.

Israeli warplanes reportedly struck five schools hosting displaced
families, three of them located in the Zaytoun neighborhood. Among them,
the Yaffa School in Tuffah—designated as a safe shelter—was completely
destroyed.

Classrooms at Fahd al-Sabah School in the same area were also bombed,
injuring multiple displaced persons. Al-Hurriya and Al-Falah schools in
Zaytoun were similarly hit.

In central Gaza, Israeli forces bombed a tent sheltering displaced people
inside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. The Government Media
Office in Gaza confirmed it was the 12th such strike on the hospital,
endangering the lives of patients.

Since the beginning of the war, Israeli forces have targeted 256
displacement centers, which collectively sheltered over 700,000 people.
According to the media office, the military has intensified these attacks
in June, bombing at least 11 more centers—mostly schools.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has waged a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip,
resulting in the death or injury of around 190,000 Palestinians—mostly
women and children—with over 14,000 still missing. A devastating famine is
now putting thousands more at imminent risk.

*(PC, AJA)*
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