KHAN YUNIS: Several civilians were killed and others injured this evening as Israeli occupation forces launched airstrikes on various areas in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, according to local medical sources.
The sources confirmed that four citizens were killed and scores were wounded in an Israeli bombardment of the Malaha area west of Khan Yunis. Additionally, an Israeli warplane targeted a residential building in Jourat Al-Aqad neighborhood west of the city, causing injuries among the residents.
Simultaneously, invading Israeli troops continued their campaign of destroying homes and structures belonging to local Palestinian citizens in the Al-Batn Al-Sameen area of Khan Yunis.
The Israeli military also persisted in shelling the surroundings of Al-Amal Hospital in the city, firing intensively in its direction.
Furthermore, Israeli airstrikes targeted several houses in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.
According to local health authorities, the Israeli occupation committed 18 massacres du
ring the last 24 hours against civilian families in the Gaza Strip, resulting in 174 fatalities and 310 injuries.
In a preliminary toll, the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7 has resulted in the death of 26,257 individuals, the majority of whom are innocent civilians, and 64,797 injuries.
Worse still, the aggression has resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly 2 million people from all of the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt-in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Source: Palestine news and Information Agency