إسرائيل تزيد من قصف غزة.. سقوط عشرات القتلى وتفاقم الأزمة الإنسانية

عمد الجيش الإسرائيلي، أمس الثلاثاء، إلى Intensifying bombardment via air and artillery on various regions within the Gaza Strip, resulting in numerous fatalities and injuries, alongside the demolition of many homes, particularly in the Musbah area north of Rafah City in the southern Gaza Strip. Concurrently, “Al-Qassam Brigades” reported loss of contact with the group holding the American-Israeli captive Aidan Alexander due to bombardment of the hideout. Meanwhile, the Israeli Prime Minister, during a tour with the Minister of Defense in northern Gaza, pledged to continue the war until “Hamas” is eradicated. The Israeli army acknowledged the seizure of properties belonging to Gaza residents, yet it refrained from disclosing their fate. The humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip have deteriorated to an unprecedented level, with the United Nations expressing concern over the targeting of the Arab (Baptist) hospital in Gaza.
The bombardment led to casualties, as Israeli drones targeted a house near the Ghafri intersection on Al-Jalaa Street in the center of Gaza City. Simultaneously, Israeli forces destroyed residential buildings in northeastern Rafah, while multiple areas in the northern Gaza Strip faced continuous artillery fire. The stationed artillery in eastern Gaza City resumed bombardments toward northern regions, and military helicopters directed fire towards northeastern Rafah, exacerbating the destruction and civilian casualties. Several medical teams at the “Kuwait Specialized” hospital in Rafah were injured due to Israeli aircraft targeting the hospital’s rear entrance.
On Tuesday, Al-Qassam Brigades declared it had lost contact with the group holding soldier Aidan Alexander after a direct airstrike targeted their location.
The spokesman for Al-Qassam Brigades stated via their Telegram channel: “Our estimates indicate that the Israeli army is intentionally trying to relieve pressure related to the dual-nationality prisoners in order to continue its genocidal war against our people.”
For its part, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced on Tuesday that hospitals had received 17 dead and 69 wounded over the past hours due to the ongoing Israeli aggression, raising the overall death toll since the war began on October 7, 2023, to 51,000, with 116,343 casualties. The ministry clarified that the death toll since March 18, 2025, alone, amounted to 1,630 dead and 4,302 wounded, indicating a clear escalation of aggression in recent weeks.
In another context, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu conducted a tour of northern Gaza on Tuesday alongside Defense Minister Israel Katz and Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir. Netanyahu stated: “Hamas will receive heavier blows,” adding, “We insist on Hamas releasing our captives and are determined to achieve all our objectives in this war.”
Zamir emphasized: “The army will not allow political disputes to seep into its ranks,” stressing that “the army’s mission in Gaza is to protect Israel, retrieve captives, and defeat Hamas.”
In a related context, the Israeli army admitted to detaining funds and thousands of properties belonging to Gaza residents since the war began, but it refused to provide information about them, claiming it does not have centralized data on the volume of properties and amounts confiscated from Gaza residents arrested since the beginning of the war. Additionally, the army firmly denied revealing any information regarding orders and instructions related to the confiscated properties, claiming they are confidential. Meanwhile, the Israeli army announced the assassination of Mohammed Al-Ajjala, the new commander of the Shuja’iyya Brigade belonging to “Hamas,” just days after the assassination of his predecessor, Haitham Rizq Abdul Karim Al-Sheikh Khalil. The Israeli army had previously disclosed targeting a commander from an elite cell in “Hamas” involved in the October 7 attacks in an airstrike that targeted central Gaza two weeks ago.
This situation unfolds amidst deteriorating humanitarian conditions and severe shortages of medical services due to the ongoing blockade and widespread destruction affecting health facilities in the region. A spokesman for the United Nations Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, stated that nearly 70% of Gaza’s population is currently under Israeli eviction orders, leaving Palestinians without a safe place to go. Israel has not allowed any humanitarian aid or essential supplies to enter Gaza for over seven weeks, and civilians must be respected and protected at all times, with an urgent need to restore and renew the ceasefire without delay. Dujarric added that Secretary-General António Guterres feels “grave concern” regarding the Israeli bombardment that targeted the Arab Baptist hospital in Gaza last Sunday. The spokesman stated in an official statement: “The Secretary-General is following with deep concern and distress the attack waged by Israeli forces on the Arab Baptist hospital, which disrupted medical services at the facility located in Gaza City, and constituted a severe blow to an already collapsing healthcare system in the Strip.”