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Gaza on Wednesday: 79 Killed, Including 21 Shot at ‘Aid’ Sites

On Wednesday, July 16th, 2025, Day 648 of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and Day 119 since Israel violated the mediated ceasefire agreement on March 18, medical sources reported that at least 74, as Israeli forces carried out airstrikes and shelling across the enclave.

This includes 21 people who were shot in the ‘gladiator arenas’ set up by the US-based Christian Zionist company GHF for Palestinians in desperate need of food.

Over 850 Palestinians have been killed at these so-called ‘aid sites’ the end of May, when ‘GHF” began its operations, shutting down the existing 400 aid distribution sites (which were themselves insufficient), and replacing them with just 4 ‘Hunger Games’ style gladiator arenas of death, where Palestinians desperate for food are forced into a small area and then shot at by snipers while they fight over small bags of flour and food.

The group also distributed bags of poisoned and rotten food that caused severe illness in a number of families (details below).

Earlier this month, 169 relief organizations demanded a halt to the US-Israeli aid distribution mechanism led by the foundation. This followed near-daily reports of civilians killed by Israeli fire while waiting for aid near its centers.

The organizations called for a return to the UN-led aid delivery mechanism in the Gaza Strip until last March, when the occupation imposed a blockade on the Strip. The mechanism gradually allowed aid into the Strip in late May, distributing it through local organizations and networks. GHF, under the leadership of the US, has refused to do so, exacerbating an already severe crisis of Israeli-induced malnutrition and starvation of the Gazan population.

The Israeli military committed numerous war crimes again on Wednesday (details below), bombing and shelling the starved, besieged and unarmed civilian population of 2.3 million people imprisoned inside the Gaza death camp (Israel claims to be ‘targeting Hamas militants’, but the overwhelming majority of the nearly 60,000 documented killed over the past 648 days have been non-combatants, including nearly 17,000 children).

Intense Israeli shelling on several areas in the Gaza Strip began early in the morning Friday and continued through the afternoon and into the evening — as has been the case every day in Gaza since October 7, 2023 (apart from a five-day ceasefire in late November 2023, and a 51-day ceasefire from January 25th through March 18th, 2025).

The death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 79 since dawn on Wednesday, including 21 aid seekers.

8:30 pm:

Five civilians, including a woman, were killed in the ongoing Israeli shelling of the Gaza Strip.

A Wafa news correspondent reported that four citizens were killed and others were injured in an artillery attack targeting them near the Abu Awda olive press on Salah al-Din Street, east of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The killed have been identified as: Muhammad Ghayyad Abu Salhih, Hamza Abu Huwaishil, Amr Mohsen Abu Huwaishil, and Muhammad Kamal Al-Qatshan.

He added that the occupation forces bombed an apartment owned by the Ajur family west of Gaza City, killing citizen Saja Abu Riya and wounding others.

A number of citizens were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted the Al-Barakah area, south of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, while the occupation forces blew up residential buildings northwest of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip .

The Palestinian Muhammad Farhan Arafat, his wife, their sons Ihab and Basel, their wives, and their grandchildren were killed in a massacre carried out by the occupation forces against the family in Al-Tuffah neighborhood, Gaza City (pictured in the featured photo).

6:11 pm

Twelve Palestinians were killed and others were injured, most of them moderately to seriously, as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

A Wafa news correspondent reported that seven citizens were killed and 17 others, including children, were injured as a result of the occupation’s bombing of the Abu Areef and Al-Mazra’a areas in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Among those killed were: Shadi Al-Shalabi, Abdel Shafi Abu Gharqoud, Ibrahim Al-Zamar, the wife of Muhammad Al-Dayeh, and Jabry Mahmoud Adnan Issa.

An additional three citizens were killed, and a number of other injured, in an Israeli bombardment targeting them in the Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Two citizens also died of their wounds in the Sudanese area, northwest of the Gaza Strip.

5:00 pm

4 Palestinians were reported killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a School sheltering displaced civilians in Al-Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza.

3:00 pm

At least three Palestinians were reported killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike that hit a residential apartment in Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast Gaza City.

A Palestinian journalist in Gaza warned that a bean called “Shabatiya,” found in U.S. aid, has caused severe intestinal poisoning in several families, as he advised residents to avoid eating it.

12:04 pm

Medical sources reported that 21 Palestinians were killed, including 15 who suffocated due to tear gas fired by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at people waiting for aid south of Khan Younis city, since dawn on Wednesday.

A Wafa news correspondent reported that the occupation forces attacked thousands of people waiting for aid south of Khan Yunis, firing live ammunition and tear gas canisters, resulting in a large number of martyrs.

He pointed out that for the first time, deaths have been recorded as a result of suffocation and stampede at aid distribution centers, which have turned into death traps.

7:58 am

Medical sources said that 20 citizens were killed and others wounded as a result of the Israeli occupation forces’ bombing of several areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn on Wednesday.

A Wafa news correspondent reported that nine citizens waiting for aid were killed on Al-Tina Street, southwest of Khan Yunis, while a young man from Al-Maghazi camp was killed when the occupation targeted a café on the Az-Zawaida beach in the central Gaza Strip .

He added that four citizens, including three children, were killed when the occupation forces bombed a tent for displaced people near the Al-Rabi’ Hall in Camp 2 in Nuseirat, central Gaza. Another citizen was killed and others were injured in a bombing that targeted Al-Safa Tower in the camp.

Two civilians were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Al-Hattab family’s home in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

In Khan Yunis, two citizens were killed and others were injured as a result of the occupation forces’ bombing of the tents of the displaced behind the Attar station in the Al-Mawasi area west of the city. In addition, a child (6 years old) was killed and others were injured as a result of the bombing of the tents of the displaced near the Tiberias station in Al-Mawasi.

The Wafa correspondent noted that violent explosions took place in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, as a result of the occupation army’s bombing of residential homes in the neighborhood, and smoke rose from the area .

Since October 7, 2023, Israel, the occupying power, has been waging a war of genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it .

The genocide has left more than 197,000 martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced people and a famine that claimed the lives of many, including dozens of children .

Children in Gaza are facing a growing crisis of disease and malnutrition, with flies swarming overcrowded shelters and hospitals.

The lack of food, clean water, and medical care under Israel’s ongoing siege continues worsening their already unbearable conditions.

Social media influencer in Gaza, Bissan Owda, issued a call for renewed boycotts of Israeli products to pressure Israel to stop its ever-increasing offensive against the entire civilian population of 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip: