An Israeli airstrike hit a post office serving as a shelter in central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp Thursday, killing at least 30 Palestinians and wounding 50 others, as the death toll across the enclave reached 66 in a single day of bombardment.
The strike devastated the postal facility where displaced families had sought refuge and damaged nearby houses in Nuseirat, one of Gaza’s eight historic refugee camps dating to the 1948 war. The area, originally established for Palestinian refugees, has become part of a dense urban zone crowded with people displaced by the current conflict.
Earlier Thursday, Israeli forces conducted two strikes in southern Gaza, killing 13 Palestinians who Gaza medics and Hamas identified as aid convoy protectors. The Israeli military claimed they were Hamas militants attempting to hijack humanitarian shipments, part of ongoing tensions over aid delivery security. Hamas reports losing 700 police tasked with securing aid trucks since the war began.
Israel also ordered new evacuations in central Gaza City, warning residents it would respond to rocket launches from those areas. “This is a pre-warning before an attack,” the military announced via social media and mobile alerts, triggering fresh displacement as families fled at nightfall.
Additional strikes hit Gaza City’s al-Jalaa Street and western Nuseirat, killing 22 people, while in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, Israeli forces allegedly shot dead orthopedic doctor Saeed Judeh en route to Al-Awda Hospital, bringing medical worker casualties to 1,057 since October.
The violence continues despite Wednesday’s UN General Assembly vote demanding an immediate ceasefire and hostage release. The conflict has killed more than 44,800 Palestinians and displaced nearly all of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents since Hamas’s October 7 attack that killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 hostages.
