Palestinian media: Israeli strikes kill 16 people in Gaza City, 2 in Deir al-Balah

Nurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent

Displaced Palestinians watch from the al-Mawasi refugee camp as flares launched by Israeli forces light up the sky above nearby Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 21, 2025. (AFP)
Displaced Palestinians watch from the al-Mawasi refugee camp as flares launched by Israeli forces light up the sky above nearby Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 21, 2025. (AFP)

According to reports in Palestinian media, 16 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike earlier this morning in the Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City.

Two additional fatalities and several injuries were also reported in a separate strike in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

Additionally, the director of Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry tells Al Jazeera that 20 people have died from starvation in the past 48 hours.

The figures could not be independently verified.

There is no comment from the IDF

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