Israeli attacks led to the killing of at least 26 Palestinians, including children, in Gaza New Year’s DayWith temporary shelters for displaced people across the Strip flooding after days of heavy rain.

There were reports of attacks on Wednesday in Jabalia in northern Gaza, Bureij refugee camp, Gaza City in central Gaza, and the city of Khan Yunis in the south.

The Gaza Ministry of Health said that among the dead were four children and a woman. At least 10 other Palestinians are missing and are believed to be under the rubble.

Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the Gaza Civil Defense Service, said: 15 people were martyred and more than 20 others were injured in a massacre that occurred after midnight in a house inhabited by displaced people in the town of Jabalia.

A relative of some of the victims said first responders were still searching for survivors. Jabri Abu Wardeh said: “The house turned into a pile of rubble.”

It was a massacre, with body parts of children and women scattered everywhere. “They were sleeping when the house was bombed,” Abu Wardeh said. “No one knows why they targeted the house. They were all civilians.”

An attack that occurred at night in the Bureij refugee camp resulted in the killing of a woman and a child, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies.

In the Al-Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza City, the Civil Defense said in a statement that a bombing on a residential house belonging to the Al-Sawerki family led to the death of six people, including two children and a woman.

Another attack in Khan Yunis killed three people, according to Nasser Hospital and the European Hospital, which received the bodies.

The Civil Defense said that it is finding it difficult to respond to distress calls from families due to the intense Israeli bombing over the past few days.

He added: “Those trapped in the incursion areas suffer from a complete lack of livelihoods. A member of Al Jazeera Civil Defense told Al Jazeera that the suspension of our services has completely affected the lives of citizens who are subjected to Israeli bombing.

Tariq Abu Azoum, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, said: “The New Year comes to Gaza, not with joy or hope, but with the sound of fighter jets and drones and the sounds of explosions that shake eardrums.”

Israel’s war on Gaza The Gaza Ministry of Health said on Wednesday that Israel has killed at least 45,553 Palestinians and wounded 108,379 others since October 7, 2023.

“It is not only Israeli bombs and forced displacement that are burdening the Palestinians, but also the extremely cold weather. Many of them are in tents, lacking warm winter clothes, and are trying to overcome this by resorting to primitive heating methods,” Abu Azoum said.

Several days of heavy rains have flooded hundreds of temporary shelters across the Strip, exacerbating the misery for forcibly displaced Palestinians as Israel continues to restrict humanitarian access. At least six infants freeze In recent days.

Samah Darabeh, a displaced woman from Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, said: “We have not slept for three days for fear that our children will get sick due to the winter, and also for fear that missiles will fall on us.” He now lives in Beit Lahia.

Throughout their 15-month offensive on Gaza, Israeli forces routinely besieged and attacked medical facilities housing patients and displaced families.

Darabih said: “Two days ago, they bombed Al-Wafa Hospital behind us, and the shrapnel fell here.”

Last week, Israeli forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, forcibly evacuating medical staff and patients from the hospital and arresting the hospital director, Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya, whose whereabouts remain unknown.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said that Kamal Adwan Hospital “is suffering from a stifling siege, as the operations and surgery departments, laboratory, maintenance, ambulance units, and warehouses were completely burned.”

The United Nations said that Israeli attacks on Gaza’s hospitals had pushed its health care system “to the brink of total collapse,” and that Israeli justifications that Palestinian armed groups were using health facilities were “vague and vague” and “contrary to publicly available information.”

Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has drawn growing international condemnation, with officials and human rights groups describing the attacks and obstruction of aid deliveries as acts of genocide.

In November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Galant on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel is also facing a genocide case at the International Court of Justice over its deadly war on Gaza.