GazaHerald – Israeli warplanes launched a barrage of attacks early on Monday morning that destroyed homes and shelters and killed dozens of people, including children and whole families.
In Gaza City’s Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, an Israeli airstrike obliterated a family home, killing a mother, a father, and their six children. Not a single member of the household survived. Rescuers who reached the site found nothing but lifeless bodies beneath the rubble.
Only hours earlier, another strike tore through a tent sheltering displaced families on Al-Lababidi Street in Gaza City, killing at least three people. The attack targeted people who had already fled their homes, believing a temporary shelter might offer them safety.
The bombardment was relentless. Israeli warplanes struck the eastern districts of Gaza City, hitting more buildings in the predawn darkness. Children made up the majority of the wounded. In the south, Khan Yunis was pounded by airstrikes that left seven people dead in the western refugee camp. More raids followed north of the city.
In central Gaza, the Nuseirat refugee camp was also hit. Helicopters targeted a family home, while artillery and gunboats shelled the camp’s northern and western edges, trapping terrified residents in a rain of fire and shrapnel.
52 Palestinians Killed on Sunday
Medical sources reported that 52 Palestinians were killed on Sunday alone. Among them were 26 starving people who had been searching for food when they were struck. The attacks spanned the length of the Strip, from north to south, leaving behind fresh mass graves in a place already scarred by months of bombardment.
Since October 2023, Israel, with full American backing, has waged what Palestinians and international observers describe as a genocidal war against Gaza’s population. In just over ten months, more than 61,000 Palestinians have been killed, over 152,000 injured, and nearly the entire population displaced.
The destruction, say humanitarian agencies, is without precedent since World War II. Schools, mosques, tents, and other places where people seek refuge have been targeted, hospitals have been reduced to rubble, and entire neighborhoods have been leveled.
For the family in Al-Zeitoun, there will be no tomorrow. Their story joins tens of thousands of others in a war where, day after day, Israel’s bombs erase lives, homes, and entire family trees, leaving only silence where voices once lived.
