In the early hours of Monday, approximately 20 Palestinians were killed due to continuous Israeli airstrikes targeting various regions of the Gaza Strip, with a significant focus on Rafah and Khan Younis in the south.
Following these attacks, the Israeli army retreated from eastern Deir al-Balah, allowing the recovery of bodies amid warnings of critical shortages of medicines and fuel affecting the lives of the injured.
Over the past 24 hours, the Israeli forces committed five massacres in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 40 bodies and 218 injuries arriving at hospitals, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
This escalation brings the total casualties from the ongoing Israeli offensive on the besieged territory to 37,124 deaths and 84,712 injuries.
Medical sources reported to Al Jazeera that the bodies of five martyrs and over 30 injured people from Rafah were taken to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis this morning.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent confirmed that several Palestinians were injured by Israeli forces’ gunfire targeting displaced persons in the Mawasi Rafah area in southern Gaza.
Additionally, continuous Israeli artillery shelling is targeting areas adjacent to the Palestinian-Egyptian border west of Rafah.
The Palestinian news agency reported the deaths of two Palestinians and the injury of others due to an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.
Israeli naval forces also fired dozens of shells toward the coast of Gaza City, and artillery fire targeted homes in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in the southwest and the Zaytoun neighborhood in the southeast.
Israeli airstrikes also hit areas east of the Bureij refugee camp, one of which involved a seismic missile that caused a tremor felt by residents of the central governorate.
In Deir al-Balah, Israeli forces withdrew their vehicles from the eastern parts of the city after a limited five-day incursion that targeted Palestinians attempting to return to their homes.
Rescue teams successfully reached the areas vacated by Israeli forces, recovering bodies of Palestinians killed during the army’s incursion.
The Israeli military demolished several houses and bulldozed many residential and agricultural areas before their retreat.
With the rising number of injured and the continued closure of the Rafah crossing since May 7, Marwan al-Hams, head of the emergency committee in Rafah, warned that hospital power generators’ failure could lead to numerous deaths.
Al-Hams emphasized that no medical supplies have entered Gaza since the Rafah crossing was closed, and there are no alternatives if hospital generators fail, calling on the international community to intervene to resolve the crisis.
Israel continues its military operations despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate halt to the conflict and an International Court of Justice order to end the incursion into Rafah and take measures to prevent genocide and improve the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.