24 and 25 December 2023 strike
On 24 and 25 December 2023, Israeli forces bombed the camp, killing more than 100 people. [10] [11] Gaza Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra described the attack as a "massacre being committed on crowded residential square". [12] [10] The Associated Press reported on 25 December they had seen records from the nearby Al-Aqsa Hospital which indicated that at least 106 people had been killed in the attack. [13]
An IDF spokesperson stated that the strike "apparently resulted in harm to those not involved" and that "the IDF regrets the harm to those not involved." [14] An IDF official said that the extensive death toll was due to incorrect munitions being used in the attack. [15]
2024 attacks
Fifteen people were killed in an airstrike on a home in Al-Maghazi on 1 January. [16] On 5 January 2024, it was reported that Israel has increased violence towards camp residents. People were being shot at and crushed by tanks. Al Jazeera reported that an Israeli sniper shot dead a mother and her infant, "piercing the baby’s skull with a bullet". [17] On 16 January, sixteen bodies were recovered from under rubble following multiple days of airstrikes. [18] Multiple people were reportedly killed and injured on 29 March. [19] At least three people were reportedly killed by an Israeli bombing on 31 March. [20]
On 16 April, health officials reported that an Israeli airstrike killed 13 people, including seven children; one witness stated that, "You are killing children. You are not killing an army or fighters; you are killing children who were peacefully playing in the street.", and another, speaking of "kids dead on the ground", said "They were just playing foosball, and they were martyred." [21] [22] Several other people were wounded in the airstrike, with dozens of injured people being sent to the Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital. [23]
On 25 June, Israeli forces bombed a house in the Maghazi refugee camp, killing five people, three of which were children. [24] [25] On 4 July 2024, three people in a car were reportedly killed by an Israeli airstrike — one of the dead had on their UN vest. [26] [27]
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