Many of the victims were waiting for humanitarian aid in besieged Gaza
At least 20 more Palestinians were killed and scores injured as the Israeli army escalated its attacks in the war-torn Gaza Strip on Tuesday, medics said.
Israeli forces shelled civilians waiting for aid delivery in the Netzarim Corridor and Salah al-Din Street in central Gaza, killing 11 people and injuring over 65 others, a medical source told Anadolu.
Six other people were killed by Israeli shelling of their houses in the town of Al-Zawayda in central Gaza.
Two Palestinians died of wounds they sustained in earlier Israeli strikes in the central and southern Gaza Strip, medical sources said.
A young man also died of severe malnutrition in the southern city of Khan Younis amid an Israeli siege on the enclave, the government media office said.
According to witnesses, the Israeli army shelled residential buildings in eastern Gaza City and eastern Khan Younis in the south.
Despite international calls for a ceasefire, the Israeli army has killed more than 56,500 Palestinians in a deadly onslaught in the Gaza Strip since October 2023.
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.
