{"id":317867,"date":"2026-07-06T12:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=317867"},"modified":"2026-06-30T18:33:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:33:25","slug":"israel-bombs-palestinians-in-beach-tents-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/07\/israel-bombs-palestinians-in-beach-tents-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Bombs Palestinians in Beach Tents in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Members of the Yassin family next to their destroyed tents on the coastline west of Gaza City after an Israeli airstrike on June 24, 2026. Screenshot of video by Abdel Qader Sabbah.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThis area is made up of tents sheltering civilians\u2014displaced people, people who lived through oppression, humiliation, famine, war and siege. And the whole place was bombed.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em>— Abdel Qader Sabbah<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

25 Jun 2026\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0Eleven-year-old Ahmed Al-Raqab was playing outside his family tent pitched on Gaza\u2019s sandy coastline in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, on Wednesday when the Israeli missile struck, killing him and severely wounding several others.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe children were playing and they fired a missile directly on them,\u201d Ahmed\u2019s father, Sabri Al-Raqab, said, sobbing as he knelt on the floor of Nasser hospital with his arms across his son\u2019s dead body in a final embrace. \u201cHe was carrying a watermelon. What was this child\u2019s crime? He picked up a watermelon and they fired at him. Is he a fighter? He\u2019s not a fighter. He\u2019s a child.\u201d<\/p>\n

Overcome with grief, Al-Raqab buried his face into his son\u2019s, which was caked with blood, and wept uncontrollably. In a nearby room, a six year old child wounded in the same attack screamed in pain as blood from a gaping wound in his right eye covered his cheek and ear. He was carried into the hospital in the arms of a teenage relative who laid him down shouting, \u201cCome attend to this boy. We are losing the boy, we are losing him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The child\u2019s grandfather, Ahmed Al-Jarjawi, stood nearby, the front of his jalabiya stained deep red with blood. \u201cWe were just sitting and the strike landed next to the our tent and hit three other tents,\u201d Ahmed Al-Jarjawi told Drop Site News. \u201cThis child lost his eye. I was wounded here,\u201d he said pointing to his chest. \u201cMy son\u2019s wife was also wounded in the upper part of her leg.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest Israeli attacks on children came a day after a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry released a report that concluded, \u201cIsraeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip.\u201d The UN inquiry said that during the first two years of the Israeli assault, over 20,000 children were killed and more than 44,000 injured.<\/p>\n

Since the so-called ceasefire went into effect in October 2025, Israel has killed at least 265 children and wounded hundreds more in Gaza, according to findings released last week by the UN children\u2019s agency UNICEF. \u201cDuring a period supposedly defined by restraint and protection, a child has been killed, on average, every single day for more than eight months,\u201d UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said in a statement. \u201cThat is an absurd and devastating figure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s attacks on Wednesday targeted several areas of Gaza\u2019s coastline where thousands of displaced Palestinians live in dilapidated tent encampments. The encampments by the sea lie as far as possible from the \u201cyellow line\u201d where Israeli troops are stationed and are steadily encroaching further westward. Yet Israel has repeatedly bombed Gaza\u2019s beaches, killing Palestinians living in the barest part of the enclave.<\/p>\n

One of the airstrikes overnight hit a tent encampment on the coastline west of Gaza City. Israel warned of the strike minutes before, prompting families to flee towards the sea before the missile struck, destroying several tents and leaving a massive crater in the sand.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were sleeping, it was night. We heard sounds of commotion and disturbance so we went outside to see what was happening, and we found that everyone, in the whole quarter, the whole encampment, was evacuating. We left with them,\u201d said Ahmed Yassin, who lived with his wife, five children and other relatives in two tents pitched on the sandy dunes. He spoke in a low, wearied voice. \u201cWe took our children, they were sleeping. My mother is elderly and disabled. She\u2019s ill. We barely managed to get out in the final moments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Behind him, children picked through the ruins of the tents, trying to salvage whatever they could from the detritus. \u201cWe have no place, no shelter, nothing. Where are we supposed to go? We have no idea. From the beginning of the war until today, the attacks have never stopped. It didn\u2019t stop. A truce, a ceasefire\u2014where is the ceasefire? What are they talking about? Bombing, destruction, shelling. The war is ongoing,\u201d Yassin said.<\/p>\n

The Yassin family was displaced from their five-story home in Al-Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City early in the war. They went south, where they were displaced several times again before returning north after the \u201cceasefire\u201d went into effect. Ultimately, they ended up in a tent on the coastline.<\/p>\n

\u201cAl-Zeitoun is a dangerous area, today there is no one there. The area we used to live in is basically nothing but a demolition zone,\u201d Yassin\u2019s wife, Rana, said. \u201cThis area here was made up of tents sheltering civilians\u2014displaced people, people who lived through oppression, humiliation, famine, war and siege. And the whole place was bombed, the entire area was destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued, \u201cToday, as you can see, we are sitting on the rubble of the tent and one doesn\u2019t know where to go or what to do. Everything is gone. You want tents\u2014everything costs money. You want wood\u2014everything costs money. You want mattresses, sheets, blankets, clothes for the children. The children only have the clothes they were wearing when we fled the area. Other than that there is nothing. There is nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n

As temperatures soar in the summer months, Palestinians in Gaza have little recourse from the heat and access to clean water is an ordeal. The Israeli military has targeted water pipelines, sewage systems, and desalination plants, damaging or destroying nearly 90 percent of water infrastructure in Gaza, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF).<\/p>\n

\u201cPalestinians in Gaza face engineered water scarcity,\u201d MSF said in a report. \u201cFamilies often prioritize drinking over cooking or washing, limit personal hygiene, and rely on unsafe or saline sources when humanitarian deliveries are interrupted.\u201d<\/p>\n

For displaced families living on the coastline, water is even scarcer, causing some Palestinians to resort to digging their own wells in desperation.<\/p>\n

Mohammed Zayed, who was displaced from Beit Lahia to a tent on the beach west of Gaza City, dug a makeshift well outside his tent using simple tools. \u201cWe were displaced from our land in northern Gaza and are now living on the seashore. We suffered tremendously, an indescribable hardship, due to the lack of water. We had to wait for water trucks, walk long distances and spend hours under the sun, just to sometimes get a single gallon of water. Other times, we would return empty handed\u2014unable to meet our daily needs and with no water,\u201d Zayed told Drop Site. \u201cWe were forced to go to the sea. The seawater is salty, but we would collect and use it despite the great difficulty. We tried to carry on with our lives, but we could not endure living without water or basic necessities. So, thank God, I worked hard and dug this well next to my tent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zayed\u2019s makeshift well is small but effective. It stands about a foot in diameter, with plastic running down the sides leading up to a narrow open pipe jutting out of the ground. He lowered a tin can on a rope a few meters deep and brought out fresh water, slowly filling a plastic bucket. \u201cThe water is very fresh. It has eased my hardship and the hardship of those around me. Displaced people from the surrounding tents come here to fill up with fresh water,\u201d Zayed said.<\/p>\n

With soaring food prices, Zayed also used the water to irrigate a small vegetable garden he constructed beside his tent growing eggplants and zucchini. \u201cI dug the well, found water, and managed to grow vegetables. This has greatly reduced the suffering of those around me,\u201d he said. \u201cWe live in tents and in these tents we face so many hardships: Heat, cold, insects, rodents and sand. The sand itself causes us suffering. It gets into our bedding, our clothes, and affects our children\u2026They develop itching and pimples on their bodies from the sand, the sea and the heat. May God ease our suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Abdel Qader Sabbah –\u00a0<\/a>J<\/em>ournalist and videographer in northern Gaza.<\/em><\/div>\n

Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Jawa Ahmad contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n

Sami Vanderlip edited the video.<\/em><\/p>\n

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