Gaza Herald – At least 70 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed on Saturday as Israeli forces carried out a new wave of heavy air and artillery strikes across the Gaza Strip, defying U.S. President Donald Trump’s public call to halt the attacks.
Gaza’s civil defense agency confirmed that 40 of the killed were in Gaza City, where residential neighborhoods were flattened overnight.
According to Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the civil defense, one of the deadliest strikes hit the Abdul Aal family home in Gaza City’s Al-Tuffah neighborhood, killing 18 members of the same family.
The agency described the bombardment as “continuous and indiscriminate,” saying rescue teams are still pulling bodies from the rubble.
The Gaza Government Media Office condemned what it described as “open massacres” against civilians, reporting that the Israeli army launched over 93 air and artillery strikes on densely populated areas since dawn.
It accused Israel of deliberately targeting displacement zones, aid points, and family homes, turning Gaza’s neighborhoods into mass graves.
“Israel continues its systematic killing of civilians and destruction of life in Gaza, ignoring every international call for calm,” the office said in a statement. Local journalists say entire families remain trapped under debris as medics and rescue teams struggle to reach bombed areas amid what residents describe as one of the most relentless nights of this ongoing genocide.
