Israeli forces have bombed a cafe, a school and food distribution sites in Gaza, killing at least 95 Palestinians, and attacked a hospital, wounding several more people.<\/p>\n
At least 62 of the victims of Monday\u2019s attacks were in Gaza City and the north of the territory.<\/p>\n
The figure includes 39 people who were killed in an Israeli strike on a seaside cafe, Al-Baqa cafeteria,\u00a0in northern Gaza City. Dozens more were wounded.<\/p>\n
Among the dead was journalist Ismail Abu Hatab, as well as women and children who had gathered at the cafe.<\/p>\n
One witness said that Israeli fighter jets carried out the strike.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe found people torn apart,\u201d said Yahya Sharif. \u201cThis place wasn\u2019t affiliated with anyone \u2013 no politics and no military association whatsoever. It was packed with people including children for a birthday party.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bombing flattened the cafe and left a huge crater in the ground.<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera\u2019s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said the attack on the cafe occurred \u201cwithout any warning\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis area serves as a refuge for many traumatised and displaced people, offering some relief from the oppressive heat of the tents. The bloodstains are still everywhere given the intensity of the explosion. Some of the bodies and pieces of flesh were collected from the flood of this place,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Also on Monday, Israeli forces carried out an air strike on a food distribution warehouse in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, killing at least 13 people who were trying to get rations.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military also bombed the Yafa school in Gaza City, which was sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians.<\/p>\n
Hamada Abu Jaradeh, who fled before the attack, said that displaced Palestinians received a five-minute threat to evacuate. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what to do and where to go. We have been let down by the entire world for more than 630 days. Death is with us and around us every day,\u201d Abu Jaradeh said.<\/p>\n
In central Gaza, Israeli forces attacked the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, where thousands of families had sought shelter.<\/p>\n
Videos circulating online and verified by Al Jazeera showed chaos at the hospital, with people fleeing for safety as tents sheltering displaced families appeared damaged by the attack.<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera\u2019s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from the scene of the hospital attack, said the army did not issue \u201cany warnings\u201d before the \u201chuge explosion\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe site of the attack is about 10 metres [33 ft] from our broadcast point. This is not the first time the hospital\u2019s courtyard has been attacked. At least 10 times, this facility has been squarely targeted by Israeli forces,\u201d Abu Azzoum said. \u201cIt\u2019s a staggering concentration of attacks on medical facilities, adding further burden on barely functioning hospitals.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a statement, Gaza\u2019s Government Media Office decried the attack by Israel, calling it a \u201csystematic crime\u201d against the Palestinian enclave\u2019s health system.<\/p>\n
\u201cIts warplanes bombed a tent for the displaced inside the walls of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, resulting in injuries at the site of the bombing, material damage and directly threatening the lives of dozens of patients,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
Israel has repeatedly targeted dozens of hospitals during its 22-month war on Gaza. Human rights groups and United Nations-backed experts have accused Israel of systematically destroying the enclave\u2019s healthcare system.<\/p>\n
\u2018It felt like earthquakes\u2019<\/p>\n
In southern Gaza, an Israel air attack killed at least 15 Palestinians waiting for food at aid distribution hubs run by the controversial United States- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)<\/a> in Khan Younis, according to sources at Nasser Medical Complex.<\/p>\n Fifty people were also wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n They are the latest victims in a wave of daily carnage at these sites, which have killed nearly 600 Palestinians since GHF took over limited aid deliveries in Gaza in late May amid a crippling Israeli blockade.<\/p>\n The Israeli military acknowledged on Monday that Palestinian civilians were harmed at the aid distribution centres, saying that instructions had been issued to forces following \u201clessons learned\u201d, and that firing incidents were under review.<\/p>\n