At least 70 Palestinian civilians were killed since dawn Tuesday as Israel unleashed a fresh wave of bombing and shelling across the besieged Gaza Strip, according to local and medical sources.

The latest massacres come after Israel unilaterally ended the ceasefire agreement and resumed its assault on the densely populated enclave.

Witnesses reported that Israeli fighter jets and artillery carried out continuous strikes in northern Gaza, killing at least 30 civilians. Among the dead were five Palestinians, including a young girl, killed on Fahmi Bek Street in Gaza City.

Separate airstrikes targeted homes in the Sheikh Radwan and Tuffah neighborhoods, killing two civilians, while artillery shelling on the Saftawi area north of the city claimed seven more lives. Casualties were also confirmed in an attack on a group of civilians in the Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

In central Gaza, at least 20 civilians were killed. An Israeli drone strike on a tent sheltering displaced people in the Sawarha area west of Nuseirat refugee camp killed two. Another strike hit the Abu Zubeida family home in Bureij refugee camp, leaving one dead and several others missing under the rubble.

In Deir al-Balah, a strike on a warehouse sheltering displaced families killed a mother and her infant child, while another drone targeted the vicinity of Durra playground, killing one civilian. Later, seven Palestinians seeking aid near Wadi Gaza were killed in another bombing.

The southern part of the Strip also witnessed horrific scenes, with at least 20 people killed in Israeli strikes and gunfire. A tent shelter housing displaced families near al-Qarara port, northwest of Khan Younes, was bombed, killing six members of the Kuwari family, including three children. Israeli gunfire further killed six displaced people as they sought aid south of Khan Younes.

The Gaza Ministry of Health confirmed that in the past 24 hours alone, the bodies of 75 slain Palestinians and 370 wounded were admitted to hospitals across the Strip.

Since October 2023, Israel’s ongoing military onslaught has killed 62,819 Palestinians—the vast majority women and children—and left 158,629 others wounded. At least 10,000 remain missing, presumed dead beneath the rubble of bombed homes.

The renewed wave of Israeli attacks comes after Tel Aviv abruptly ended the ceasefire agreement on Tuesday, March 18. According to medical sources, Israel’s latest bombardments have already killed 10,975 people and injured 46,588 since the resumption of aggression.

The Israeli war has also forced nearly two million Palestinians into displacement, most crammed into Rafah near the Egyptian border. Human rights groups warn that this mass exodus marks the largest forced displacement of Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba.

As Israeli bombs continue to fall, Gaza’s population faces a future marked by grief, loss, and uncertainty. With tens of thousands killed, hundreds of thousands wounded, and millions displaced, Palestinians describe the war as an existential struggle for survival.

The continuation of Israel’s military onslaught after the end of the ceasefire threatens to push Gaza beyond the point of recovery, raising fears of a lost generation and the near-total destruction of civilian life in the enclave. (ILKHA)