Israeli forces kill 68, 326 injured in ongoing attacks across Gaza

Aug 12, 2025 News

Members of the Palestinian Civil Defence work at the site of an Israeli strike in Gaza City [File: Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

(AL-JAZEERA) Israeli attacks have killed 68 people and injured 326 in the latest 24-hour reporting period, Gaza’s Health Ministry says, adding that another body killed in an earlier attack has also been recovered.

Twenty-nine of the victims were killed while seeking aid, it said in a statement.

The 68 include at least 56 Palestinians who were killed in attacks across Gaza since dawn on Monday, including six aid seekers, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.

In one of the latest attacks, the Al-Aqsa Hospital reported the killing of four Palestinians by Israeli forces in the south and east of Deir el-Balah, central Gaza.

Meanwhile, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said three civilians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli attack on the Zeitoun neighbourhood of southern Gaza City.

The Wafa news agency says there have been several deadly Israeli air attacks in southern Khan Younis and northern Gaza City.

One attack hit a house in the western part of Khan Younis, killing at least seven people and wounding several others, the agency reported, citing local medical sources.

Another attack on a tent housing displaced people in Gaza City killed three others, it added.

At least seven Palestinians were also killed and 41 wounded in an Israeli attack on the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City, according to a source at al-Quds Hospital.

Most of the wounded are children, the source said.

The casualties bring the total death toll in Gaza during the war to 61,499, with 153,575 wounded, according to the ministry.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says five more people, including a child, have died of malnutrition in the latest 24-hour reporting period.

Their deaths bring the total number of people who have died from hunger-related causes during the war in the Strip to 222, 101 of whom are children, it said. Most of these people have died in the past three weeks.

Gaza’s Civil Defence agency reports that the Israeli military is routinely declining the majority of coordination requests submitted by the rescue force through international and humanitarian organisations since Israel violated the last ceasefire in March.

It said the military responded to only 10 percent of the total coordination requests that were sent through humanitarian groups.

“We affirm that this Israeli refusal to coordinate field requests for humanitarian response has caused the martyrdom of more than 2,500 citizens who were injured in the targeted areas,” the Civil Defence said in a statement, calling on the international community to intervene.

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned that “Israel’s plan to expand military operations in Gaza is deeply worrying, given the already dire humanitarian and health situation across the Strip.”

He said further military escalation “could put more children at risk due to malnutrition and lack of access to health care”.

“We repeat our call for immediate, unimpeded and scaled-up access to food and health aid, for release of hostages, and for a permanent ceasefire,” he added on X.

It comes as Benjamin Netanyahu defends his plan to seize Gaza City, despite international fears that it would exacerbate the humanitarian situation and lead to further displacement.

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