News - Middle East: At least 91 Palestinians have been killed in the latest rounds of Israeli aerial and ground attacks across the Gaza Strip amid an escalation in the regime’s nearly two-year-long genocidal war.

Medics reported that 76 of the victims were killed in Gaza City during Saturday's assault, as part of Israel's intensified offensive aimed at occupying the largest city in the besieged territory.

Residential homes, schools-turned-shelters, tents housing displaced people, and a truck carrying people trying to flee Gaza City were among the targets of the deadly attacks.

The Israeli strike on the truck in Gaza City's Nasr area killed at least four people, leaving bloodied bodies scattered at the scene.

Another air raid by the Israeli military hit the family home of Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, the director of the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, claiming the lives of at least five people, including Abu Salmiya’s brother, his sister-in-law, and the couple’s children.

“I was shocked and devastated to see the bodies of my brother and his wife,” Abu Salmiya, who was working in the hospital’s emergency department, told the AFP. “Anything is possible now, as you receive your dearest ones as martyrs or wounded.”

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas condemned the “deliberate targeting” of Abu Salmiya’s family.

“This is a bloody, terrorist message aimed at doctors to forcibly compel them to leave the city, as part of the genocide policy, of which the destruction of the medical sector's components is a cornerstone,” it said.

Hamas also noted that Israeli forces have killed some 1,700 health workers in Gaza and imprisoned 400 others over the past two years.

Israel unleashed its genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after Hamas carried out the historic Al-Aqsa Storm operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

Last month, the Israeli security cabinet approved the illegal plan to occupy Gaza City in defiance of international criticism.

Israel has so far failed to achieve its declared war objectives of eliminating Hamas and freeing all captives in Gaza, despite killing 65,208 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 166,271 others.

Famine has also gripped Gaza as Israel prevents the entry of humanitarian aid to the besieged territory.

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