On the 684th day of the genocidal war on Gaza, 31 Palestinians have been killed since dawn by continuous Israeli fire across the Strip, including eight people waiting for aid near the Netzarim junction at the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Organization.”
Gazan civil defense and ordinary civilians attempt to rescue a child from under the rubble after Israeli attacks on the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/StFIbEhtMD
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 20, 2025
In details of the aggression, sources in Gaza hospitals confirmed the deaths of 31 Palestinians by Israeli fire in various areas of the Strip since dawn on Wednesday, eight of them people waiting for aid near the Netzarim junction in the central Gaza Strip.
Due to the large number of injured and dwindling resources in hospitals, six wounded children are sharing a single bed in a hospital in war-ravaged Gaza. pic.twitter.com/o8wbkyRotb
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 20, 2025
The Israeli enemy army continued its artillery and air bombardment of the Zeitoun and Sabra neighborhoods in Gaza City for the tenth consecutive day, amid the hearing of explosions in various areas of the Strip, according to eyewitnesses quoted by Anadolu Agency.
Medical sources in Gaza hospitals confirmed the deaths of at least 31 citizens in the Israeli aggression on various areas of the Strip since dawn today.
A number of wounded people arrived from the Shakoush area, northwest of Rafah, to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, as a result of Israeli forces firing at aid seekers.
Three martyrs and more than 10 injured arrived at the Sheikh Radwan Clinic in Gaza as a result of the Israeli occupation’s targeting of a house in Jabalia al-Nazla, north of Gaza.
Grieving families mourn their loved ones, including children, killed in the nonstop Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip over the last few hours. pic.twitter.com/E3wA3XZavd
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 20, 2025
Munir al-Barsh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, confirmed that the bed occupancy rate in the Gaza Strip’s hospitals has reached 300%, an unprecedented figure that reflects the scale of the health and humanitarian catastrophe we are experiencing.
Al-Awda Hospital reported that it had received 12 martyrs over the past 24 hours, including a woman and two girls, in addition to 25 injuries as a result of the Israeli occupation’s shelling of civilian gatherings at an aid distribution point south of Wadi Gaza, in addition to other attacks in the central Gaza Strip.
Four martyrs were martyred in the Israeli occupation’s shelling of the Thari family’s tent on Islamic University Street in Gaza.
A man, his wife, and three of their children were martyred in an Israeli airstrike this morning on a tent housing displaced persons in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
A baby was killed last night along with his mother and sister after an Israeli airstrike knocked their home in Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/XYbv8Xop72
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 20, 2025
Israeli artillery shelled the area north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Four people were martyred and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Awqaf building housing displaced persons in the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
Occupation forces also blew up a number of civilian homes east of Gaza City.
BREAKING: Israeli warplanes bomb the Al-Amal neighborhood, northwest of Khan Younis. pic.twitter.com/VnEKR4lqIS
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 20, 2025
Two girls were martyred and others were injured when the Israeli occupation forces bombed the Al-Masry family home near the Al-Samar Junction in central Gaza City.
Citizen Jihad Fathi Talal Al-Dahshan was martyred when the occupation forces targeted an apartment on Al-Ishrin Street in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation forces, with full American support, are waging a war of genocide against the Gaza Strip. According to the Ministry of Health, this has so far resulted in 62,064 deaths, 156,573 injuries, and more than 10,000 missing persons. Famine has claimed the lives of dozens of people, while more than two million Palestinians are living in conditions of forced displacement amidst total destruction.
Italy: Netanyahu Ignores Half the World’s Demands on Gaza
For his part, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani called for a ceasefire and an end to the massacres in the Gaza Strip, according to the Italian newspaper Il Giornale.
The minister stated that the Israeli government “long ago crossed the red line of a legitimate and proportionate response to the October 7 attack,” considering that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ignoring half the world by continuing the war on Gaza.
He stressed that his country is against “the occupation of the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank with settlements, as well as against Israeli attacks on Christians,” explaining that his country’s goal is the establishment of a Palestinian state.
He expressed Italy’s readiness to send its forces under the umbrella of an Arab-led UN mission to build a Palestinian state.
Source: Agencies and Palestinian media (translated and edited by Al-Manar English Website)
