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by IMEMC News
July 4,2025

On Thursday, July 3, over 100 Palestinian civilians were killed and many more were wounded in intense Israeli shelling on several areas in the Gaza Strip beginning early Wednesday morning and continuing through the afternoon and night. Today marks day 635 of Israel’s genocide against the people of Gaza, and day 107 since the Israeli military violated the ceasefire agreement in February.

Medical sources announced on Thursday evening that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip has risen to more than 100 since dawn today, including 51 Palestinians who were killed while waiting for aid.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed his shock over the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, warning that “the last lifelines are about to be cut off” due to the Israeli occupation’s closure of the Strip’s crossings. Guterres expressed his alarm at the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, noting that “dozens of Palestinians have been killed or injured in recent days as a result of numerous Israeli attacks on areas sheltering displaced persons and civilians trying to obtain food.”

He strongly condemned the loss of civilian lives, noting that some 30,000 Palestinians were displaced again this week due to Israeli “evacuation orders” issued in a single day. He pointed out that the lack of safe shelter and the severe shortage of basic needs such as housing, food, medicine and water have led to a major humanitarian disaster. The UN Secretary-General stressed that “the rules of international humanitarian law are clear. Civilians must be protected and their needs met.”

He stressed that fuel has not been allowed into Gaza for more than 17 weeks, and warned that “the last lifeline in Gaza is about to be cut off.” He also warned that unless fuel is urgently secured, incubators will stop working, ambulances will be unable to reach the wounded and sick, and water will not be purified.

11:30 pm
At least 15 Palestinians were killed after an Israeli strike on tents sheltering displaced civilians in the Mawasi area of Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli occupation forces detonated residential homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, southeast Gaza City.

10:45 pm
16 civilians were killed and more than 90 others were injured, most of them seriously to critically, after the Israeli occupation army targeted Palestinians waiting for aid in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip.

A WAFA news correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation forces targeted civilians near the Tahlia area east of Khan Younis, killing 16 citizens and wounding more than 90 others, who were transferred to Nasser Medical Complex in the city.

Below: Nasser Hospital is overwhelmed with the bodies of the Palestinians killed after Israeli occupation forces targeted aid seekers in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip.

Earlier, 13 Palestinian citizens were killed and others were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation’s bombing of the cities of Gaza and Deir al-Balah.

A WAFA news correspondent reported that four civilians were killed and several others were injured when an Israeli drone bombed a civilian vehicle near Roundabout 17, west of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Four citizens were killed and others were injured as a result of the Israeli occupation forces’ bombing of Al-Ghafri neighborhood on Yaffa Street east of Gaza City. Among those killed were: Muhammad Saeed Ghazal, Amjad Khalil Al-Bahtini, and Muhammad Khalil Al-Bahtini.

A citizen was killed and others were injured as a result of Israeli artillery shelling targeting the eastern part of Gaza City.

A WAFA correspondent said that four citizens were killed and others were injured in the occupation’s shelling of the Aidoun camp for displaced persons in Al-Bureij, in the central Gaza Strip. He added that the bodies were torn to pieces and charred.

Below: Ashraf Khalil Muammar has died from injuries sustained in an Israeli strike on Khan Younis a few days ago.

8:27 pm
At least seven Palestinians were killed and dozens were injured, most of them seriously, when the Israeli occupation forces targeted people waiting for aid in Khan Younis.

A WAFA news correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation forces targeted civilians near the Tahlia area east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, resulting in a preliminary death toll of seven and dozens more injured.

Medical sources confirmed that the total number of people killed by Israeli occupation forces while waiting for aid has risen to 45 since dawn on Thursday.

and others injured when the Israeli occupation forces shelled the cities of Gaza and Deir al-Balah.

A WAFA news correspondent reported that four civilians were killed and several others were injured when an Israeli drone bombed a civilian vehicle near the 17th Roundabout, west of Deir al-Balah.

Four Palestinian citizens were killed and others were injured as a result of reconnaissance aircraft bombing that targeted the Al-Ghafri neighborhood on Yaffa Street east of Gaza City. Among those killed were: Muhammad Saeed Ghazal, Amjad Khalil Al-Bahtini, Muhammad Khalil Al-Bahtini, and a fourth person whose identity remains unknown.

A citizen was killed and others were injured as a result of Israeli artillery shelling targeting the eastern part of Gaza City.

A WAFA news correspondent said that four citizens were killed and others were injured in the Israeli bombing of the Aidoun camp for displaced persons in Al-Bureij, central Gaza Strip. He added that the bodies were torn to pieces and charred.

Below: After every Israeli massacre, Palestinians in Gaza are left to transport the dead and wounded on wooden pallets, as ambulances can’t reach many areas, and hospitals suffer from a critical lack of medical equipment (from Quds Press).

4:40 pm
Palestine TV correspondent, Islam Al-Za’noun was shot and injured by Israeli occupation forces while doing her job as a journalist on Thursday. The Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation reported that an Israeli drone fired directly at journalist, Islam Al-Za’noun, injuring her in the shoulder.

2:46 pm
Nineteen Palestinians, including a football player, were killed and dozens were injured on Thursday as a result of Israeli shelling of various areas in the Gaza Strip.

In Rafah Governorate, south of the Gaza Strip, the Red Cross Hospital announced the arrival of the bodies of seven martyrs and 30 injured people from the Shakoush area, northwest of the city, following violent Israeli airstrikes.

In Khan Younis Governorate, the occupation forces launched airstrikes on the Batn al-Samin area, south of the city.

In the Central Governorate, six citizens were killed after being targeted by occupation soldiers with live fire near an aid distribution center in the northern part of the governorate.

Muhannad Al-Layeh, a player on the Al-Maghazi Services Club football team, also died from injuries he sustained in a previous bombing of his home in Al-Maghazi camp.

In Gaza City, the Israeli occupation forces launched airstrikes targeting a residential apartment in the Qasr al-Mina building in the west of the city, injuring three citizens. Three citizens were killed and others were injured in shelling targeting the al-Zeitoun and al-Tuffah neighborhoods in the east of the city, in addition to injuries, including children, who arrived at the Baptist Hospital as a result of shelling near the Salah al-Din Mosque in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood.

In the northern Gaza Strip, Israeli aircraft targeted a gathering of civilians near Halawa roundabout in Jabalia al-Balad, killing two civilians and wounding others who were taken to hospitals for treatment.

It is worth noting that ambulance and civil defense crews continue their work to retrieve victims, facing significant difficulties due to the massive destruction and the deliberate targeting of the victims by the occupation forces.

12:10 pm
Three released prisoners, deported by Israel to the Gaza Strip, were killed on Thursday, as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.

The Jerusalem Governorate reported the killing of freed prisoner Bassam Abu Sneineh from occupied Jerusalem, as a result of an Israeli airstrike in an area of ​​the Gaza Strip. He was one of the Jerusalemite prisoners who were forcibly deported by the Israeli occupation authorities to Gaza in 2011.

The same sources added that the two freed prisoners, Ayman Abu Daoud and Mahdi Shawer, both from the Hebron Governorate, were killed during the violent Israeli bombardment that targeted various areas of the Gaza Strip last night.

The three men were among the liberated prisoners who had spent many years in Israeli prisons. They were released as part of a prisoner exchange deal in 2011, after which they were forcibly deported to the Gaza Strip as part of the policy of collective punishment and forced exile pursued by the Israeli occupation authorities.

8:23 am
Twenty-three Palestinians were killed and dozens injured on Thursday morning when the Israeli occupation forces bombed a school housing displaced people and those waiting for aid, west of Gaza City, and a tent west of Khan Younis.

Local sources reported that Israeli warplanes bombed the Mustafa Hafez School, which was sheltering displaced persons west of Gaza City, killing 13 civilians and wounding dozens more, who were transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital.

She added that the occupation forces opened fire on those waiting for aid east of Nabulsi Roundabout, west of Gaza City, killing six citizens.

In Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, three bodies, including a woman, and several wounded people arrived at Nasser Hospital after the occupation forces targeted the tents of displaced people near Al-Barakah camp in the Al-Majayda neighborhood in the Al-Mawasi area.

A citizen was killed and three others were injured when the Israeli occupation forces targeted a group of citizens near Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip.

Below [video]: A humiliating scene unfolded at a distribution point run by the US, as dozens of starved Palestinian civilians scrambled to collect what they could from the ground to return home with some food for their families.

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

The Israeli genocide of Gaza has left more than 192,000 dead 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.

Below [video]: Palestinian poet, Adel Al-Ramadi improvised a poem to photojournalist, Saed Mahanna on the way to the hospital after barely escaping Israeli bombardment today.

Below[video]: The Gaza port has turned into a large displacement camp amid relentless Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, and it was still not spared from Israeli bombardment.