GAZA, PALESTINE - JULY 9, 2025: At least 44 more Palestinians, including children, were killed on Wednesday as the Israeli army intensified its airstrikes across the war-torn Gaza Strip, medics said. Footage captured from Sderot near the Gaza border on Wednesday, July 9, shows smoke rising over areas hit by Israeli military strikes. In Gaza City, Israeli forces killed 14 people, including five children, and injured over 30 others in strikes that leveled two residential homes in Al-Shati refugee camp, a medical source said. Another Palestinian was killed, and five others were wounded in an Israeli attack targeting a group of civilians in the same city’s Tel al-Hawa neighborhood. In central Gaza, four people were killed, including a father and his son, and several others were wounded when Israeli strikes hit three homes in the Bureij and Nuseirat camps and in Deir al-Balah. In southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, 10 more Palestinians, including children, were killed in a strike that targeted tents sheltering displaced families near the Al-Atar junction west of the city. Israeli army fire also killed six people and injured more than 50 others as a crowd waited for food delivery at a US-Israeli distribution point in Rafah, a medical source said. Three more people were killed in several strikes on the Al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City, Nuseirat in central Gaza, and the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis. Two others were killed and several wounded in a separate strike on a displacement tent in the Al-Namsawi area, also west of Khan Younis. Israeli strikes targeted a civilian vehicle in the same area, killing four Palestinians, two of them children. Since October 2023, Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza has killed over 57,700 Palestinians, most of them women and children. The relentless bombardment has destroyed the enclave and led to food shortages and a spread of disease. Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.