The Israeli army targets a funeral procession in Nuseirat and commits a massacre in the center of the Gaza Strip
The death toll in the Gaza Strip rose on Friday, July 17, as a result of shelling targeting a gathering of citizens in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in casualties and injuries, in light of the worsening humanitarian, environmental and health conditions, which international and Israeli reports warn of its danger.
These attacks constitute a continuous violation of security assumptions and the ceasefire agreement that has been in place since October 10, 2025.
Medical sources in hospitals in the Gaza Strip reported that 14 people were killed and 37 others were wounded by Israeli fire and shells since dawn today.
Funeral procession targeted in Nuseirat
Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat camp announced that drones targeted with more than one missile a gathering of citizens while they were participating in a funeral procession near the Ahmed Yassin Mosque in the center of the camp, resulting in at least 8 deaths and the injury of more than 20 others, including women, children and the elderly, 10 of whom were described as critical.
Ambulance and Civil Defense crews faced difficulties in transporting the wounded as a result of the large influx of injured women and critical cases to Al-Awda Hospital. A separate raid north of Nuseirat camp resulted in one death and injuries to others, while airstrikes targeted tents sheltering displaced people in the city of Deir al-Balah and the town of al-Zawaydah, resulting in an additional death and injury to others.
For its part, Hamas condemned the targeting of the gathering in Nuseirat and renewed its demand to the mediators guaranteeing the ceasefire agreement and the United Nations to intervene immediately to stop the ongoing military operations.
Sporadic attacks from north to south
In Gaza City (north), a drone targeted a residential apartment in the Taj building on Yarmouk Street in the center of the city, killing the citizen Mohammed Tayseer Obeid and wounding 6 civilians, including women and children, and another drone bombed an apartment on Al-Mu'da'at Street in the west of the city, and one person was seriously injured near the Shaabiya junction.
In other areas, the Israeli army shelled with artillery the eastern outskirts of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood and the town of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip. To the south, vehicles penetrated for a distance of tens of meters around the perimeter of Road 16 east of the town of Al-Qarara, north of Khan Younis, before later withdrawing, coinciding with artillery shelling west of the city of Rafah and targeting the tents of the displaced, as well as gunboats firing their shells towards the coast of Rafah and Khan Younis.
According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip, the continuous violations of the agreement resulted in 1,127 deaths and 3,643 injuries as of Thursday.
Humanitarian and environmental disaster
On the livelihood and environmental side, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported that 1.6 million people in the Gaza Strip face severe levels of food insecurity, representing 77 per cent of the population, including 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant and lactating women. Although the ceasefire agreement stipulates the entry of 600 aid trucks per day, the quantities entered did not exceed 38% of what was entering before the war.
Field reports indicated that 1.7 million displaced people were still living in tents without electricity, running water, and no sewage system. In a serious environmental indicator, Gaza hospitals have recently received cases of injuries caused by "rodent bites", due to the accumulation of waste and the flow of wastewater between the tents of the displaced, which foreshadows an imminent health and epidemic catastrophe.