Six people were martyred and their bodies brought to Al-Shifa Hospital after Israeli occupation forces struck people waiting for aid in the Zikim area, northwest of the Gaza Strip, officials reported.
In the Zeitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City, occupation forces blew up several homes.
Israeli tanks raid the vicinity of an aid distribution point near the Wadi Gaza Bridge in the central Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/tfxpfdn8sU
— WAFA News Agency – English (@WAFANewsEnglish) August 16, 2025
In central Gaza, six people — including four children — were martyred when occupation forces targeted a house in the Al-Bureij refugee camp. Nearby, an attack near the Abu Helu School in the camp killed one person and wounded others. Israeli artillery also shelled northern parts of Al-Bureij and the northern areas of Nuseirat camp.
The crash of a reconnaissance drone in the Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza. pic.twitter.com/FU7MMCqCKC
— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) August 16, 2025
Over the past 24 hours Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat received nine martyrs, including a woman and six children, and 14 wounded, after Israeli forces targeted gatherings at an aid distribution point south of Wadi Gaza.
The occupation forces continue to blow up a large number of homes in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/KfVEKxbN7W
— Eye on Palestine (@EyeonPalestine) August 16, 2025
Attacks in the southern Gaza Strip were more limited but deadly: three people were martyred and others wounded when the Israeli occupation army bombed a tent sheltering displaced persons in Mawasi al-Qarara, north of Khan Yunis. The Israeli ocupation army also destroyed several residential buildings north of the city, and its aircraft carried out airstrikes in the center.
Source: Agencies (translated and edited by Al-Manar English Website)
