45 Palestinians killed in Israeli army across Gaza: Civil defense

Palestinians flee the al-Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City on June 29, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua]

At least 45 Palestinians were killed by Israeli shelling and gunfire in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gaza's Civil Defense said, while the Israeli army announced that it had attacked 140 targets in the coastal enclave over the past 24 hours.

Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Civil Defense in Gaza, told Xinhua that an Israeli drone targeted a gathering of Palestinians in the Jabalia area in the northern Gaza Strip, killing five people.

Five other people were killed in two airstrikes launched by Israeli drones, which targeted a house in the al-Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City and a gathering of Palestinians in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood in the south, according to Basal.

In Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Basal said that 18 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks targeting residential homes and tents housing displaced persons in various parts of the city.

Also, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a school housing the displaced in the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to Basal.

He noted that at least 15 people were killed and 60 others injured by Israeli army fire while waiting to receive food outside two U.S.-backed aid distribution centers north of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip and at the Netzarim junction in the central Gaza Strip.

The attacks come as Palestinian security sources reported that Israeli artillery shelling has continued since the early morning hours of Tuesday on the eastern areas of Gaza City and Jabalia, north of the Strip.

The Israeli army announced on Tuesday that the air force attacked more than 140 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, including "terrorist elements, military buildings, anti-tank missile launching points, weapons depots, and additional infrastructure."

The army said in a statement that its forces in the Southern Command continue to operate against "terrorist organizations" in the Gaza Strip.

On March 18, Israel resumed its military operations in the enclave. At least 6,315 Palestinians had been killed and 22,064 others injured since Israel renewed its intensive strikes, bringing the total death toll since October 2023 to 56,647, and injuries to 134,105, Gaza-based health authorities said on Tuesday.