GAZA: More than 25 civilians were killed and dozens were injured on Saturday evening through last night as Israeli occupation forces launched airstrikes and artillery attacks on residential areas in the Nuseirat and Al-Maghazi refugee camps, as well as the Al-Zawaida region in central Gaza and Rafah in the south.
Medical sources reported a minimum of three fatalities and numerous injuries, predominantly women and children, after an Israeli warplane targeted the home of the Salem family in the Al-Sawarha area of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Several individuals from the Hamada family were also injured following an Israeli airstrike west of the camp.
In the Al-Maghazi camp, five individuals were killed, with several others injured, after Israeli warplanes targeted a residence belonging to the Shehada family in central Gaza. Additionally, at least one person was killed, and others were injured and subsequently transported to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following an Israeli airstrike targeting a house
in the camp.
At least 12 individuals were also killed and a number of others, mostly children, injured in central Gaza following an Israeli airstrike on a house belonging to the Abu Jumaa family in the Al-Zawaida town.
In Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian identified as Eid Rafiq Abu Rashid was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Al-Salam neighborhood, and several casualties were reported due to Israeli artillery shelling east of the city.
Simultaneously, an Israeli drone targeted the rooftop of a residence in the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood in Rafah. Meantime, an Israeli airstrike hit the home of the Abu Jamous family west of the city.
The southern areas of Khan Yunis also came under attack by Israeli airstrikes during the night.
In a preliminary toll, the ongoing Israeli offensive on Gaza, which began on October 7, has resulted in more than 21,650 martyrs and approximately 56,000 injuries. Thousands are still missing, with 70% of the victims being children and women.
Source: Palestin
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