Israel carried out at least 50 air attacks across the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday, concentrating firepower on the eastern districts of Gaza City after issuing forced displacement orders that have triggered widespread panic among residents.
Medical sources told Al Jazeera that Israeli strikes killed at least 68 Palestinians during the day, with 47 of the victims targeted in Gaza City and the northern areas.
Ten Palestinians searching for food were killed in an Israeli airstrike that struck an aid distribution warehouse in the Zeitoun neighborhood of southern Gaza City, according to al-Ahli Hospital staff.
In Khan Younis, southern Gaza, Israeli warplanes attacked civilians lining up for food, killing multiple people and wounding at least 50 more, sources at Nasser Medical Complex reported.
Two more Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli forces near an aid distribution center in Rafah, deepening fears that Israel is deliberately targeting desperate civilians.
Hospitals across Gaza are collapsing under the onslaught.
Hannah Grace Pan, a British pediatric nurse volunteering in the territory, said facilities have no beds, no sufficient medical staff, and are running out of pain medication for children suffering excruciating blast injuries and severe burns.
She recounted treating a three-year-old boy, the sole survivor of an Israeli air attack that obliterated his family.
With no burn specialist, inadequate fluids, and no nutrition, his recovery is uncertain.
One of the most harrowing cases involved a pregnant woman struck by Israeli shrapnel while sheltering in her tent.
Pan said fragments pierced the woman’s chest and abdomen, killing her unborn baby before doctors could attempt to save it.