At least 49 killed in Gaza attacks as Israel sends tanks into Deir el-Balah

At slightest 49 Palestinians person been killed successful Israeli attacks crossed Gaza, aesculapian sources say, arsenic the Israeli subject has sent tanks into areas of Deir el-Balah successful cardinal Gaza for the archetypal clip since Israel began its battle connected the besieged territory successful October 2023.

Israel on Monday launched the crushed violative connected confederate and eastbound areas of the metropolis that is packed with displaced Palestinians, a time aft its subject issued a forced displacement order for residents successful the areas, forcing thousands of radical to fly westbound towards the Mediterranean seashore and southbound to Khan Younis.

Tank shelling successful the country deed houses and mosques, sidesplitting astatine slightest 3 Palestinians and wounding several, the Reuters quality bureau reported, quoting section medics.

Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum said gunfire was audible arsenic Israeli tanks rolled into the country connected Monday morning.

“We tin spot that the full metropolis is nether Israeli attack,” helium said. “We did not negociate to slumber past night.”

“There has been an ongoing Israeli bombardment. Israeli jets, tanks and naval gunboats proceed to onslaught aggregate residential areas. Three much squares were destroyed successful the city, and past residential houses were flattened.”

Smoke and flames emergence from a residential gathering deed by an Israeli onslaught successful Gaza City connected July 21, 2025 [Khamis Al-Rifi/Reuters]

He said galore Deir el-Balah residents fled utilizing donkey carts and different modes of transport.

Israel intensifies attacks

In Khan Younis successful confederate Gaza, an Israeli aerial onslaught killed astatine slightest 5 people, including a hubby and woman and their 2 children, successful a tent, medics said.

Among those reported killed since dawn connected Monday were 4 assistance seekers waiting for nutrient adjacent a organisation centre operated by the United States- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

Five different Palestinians were killed successful a abstracted Israeli bombardment successful Jabalia al-Balad successful the north.

Earlier, the Palestine Red Crescent Society reported that its teams had recovered the assemblage of 1 idiosyncratic and evacuated 3 wounded aft an Israeli artillery onslaught connected the adjacent Jabalia al-Nazla area.

Drone strikes were reported successful Gaza City, resulting successful casualties, a root astatine al-Shifa Hospital told Al Jazeera Arabic.

The erstwhile day, astatine slightest 134 radical were killed and 1,155 injured by Israeli forces, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. At slightest 59,029 radical successful Gaza person been killed since the warfare began.

On Sunday, Gaza wellness authorities reported astatine slightest 19 radical had starved to death successful 1 day, highlighting the hopeless concern nether the Israeli assistance blockade.

In an interrogation with Al Jazeera, the World Food Programme’s Palestine representative, Antoine Renard, said the United Nations bureau has warned for “weeks” that Palestinians successful Gaza are facing starvation.

“You person a level of despair that radical are acceptable to hazard their lives conscionable to scope immoderate of the assistance really coming into Gaza,” Renard said from occupied East Jerusalem.

“[There’s a] soaring fig of radical facing malnutrition, and we tin truly spot that the concern is truly getting to levels that we’ve ne'er seen ever before.”

UNRWA, the UN bureau for Palestinian refugees, said it is receiving “desperate messages of starvation” from wrong Gaza, including from its staff, arsenic humanitarian conditions proceed to deteriorate.

“The suffering successful Gaza is manmade and indispensable beryllium stopped. Lift the siege and fto assistance successful safely and astatine scale,” UNRWA said successful a connection posted connected X.

Amjad Shawa, caput of the Palestinian NGO Network, told Al Jazeera connected Monday that 900,000 children are experiencing varying degrees of malnutrition successful Gaza.

Twenty-five countries, including the United Kingdom, France and different European nations, issued a associated connection saying the warfare successful Gaza “must extremity now” and Israel indispensable comply with planetary law.

The overseas ministers of the 25 countries, including Australia, Canada and Japan, said “the suffering of civilians successful Gaza has reached caller depths”, and they condemned “the drip feeding of assistance and the inhumane sidesplitting of civilians, including children, seeking to conscionable their astir basal needs of h2o and food”.

“The Israeli government’s assistance transportation exemplary is dangerous, fuels instability and deprives Gazans of quality dignity,” the connection said.

“The Israeli government’s denial of indispensable humanitarian assistance to the civilian colonisation is unacceptable. Israel indispensable comply with its obligations nether planetary humanitarian law,” it said.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies