GAZA: Nine Palestinians were killed and 20 others injured when Israeli aircraft targeted a tent housing displaced persons in the Al-Mawasi area and a house in the Al-Amal neighborhood west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
The shelling of the tent killed six civilians, including women and children, while three members of the same family were killed when their home was completely destroyed.
Palestinian sources said that among the dead in Al-Amal was journalist Islam Muqdad.
Meanwhile, Israeli artillery shelled the town of Abasan, east of Khan Yunis. In nearby Rafah, shelling continues, with Israeli forces deploying more troops as part of an ongoing incursion.
Al-Aqsa TV reported that Israeli tanks invading the area opened heavy fire north and east of Rafah. Eyewitnesses said massive explosions rocked the city as Israeli forces demolished residenti
Before dawn on Sunday, Israeli occupation forces launched new bombing operations against buildings north of the city.
In the central Gaza Strip, two Palestinians were killed in an airstrike near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, while many residents fled areas near the Nuseirat camp due to ongoing shelling.
In Gaza City, three Palestinians were killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Shuja’iyya neighborhood.
In recent days, both the Sheja’iyya and al-Tuffah neighborhoods in eastern Gaza City have witnessed intense bombardment, resulting in massacres of civilians and mass displacement.
Two more Palestinians were killed and others wounded when a house was bombed in the Zeitoun neighborhood in southern Gaza City. Earlier, two citizens were killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike near Ain Jalut School in the same neighborhood.
Medical sources told Al-Jazeera that 16 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes since dawn on Sunday alone, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed in the past 24 hours to 46.
This includes 10 killed in Khan Yunis and others in Gaza City and Rafah. The overall death toll since Saturday morning has reached 41, according to the same sources.
