GAZA — At least 20 Palestinians, including a woman and her six children, were killed on Sunday as the Israeli army launched strikes on several areas in the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources and eyewitnesses.
Medical staff at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital reported that the woman and her six children were killed in an Israeli attack on Deir al-Balah city, with several others injured.
In another incident, four more Palestinians were killed, and others wounded, during an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Eyewitnesses also reported intensive shelling by Israeli artillery vehicles stationed east of the Gaza Strip, targeting the eastern areas of the Maghazi and Bureij camps, as well as Deir al-Balah.
In Gaza City, a Palestinian woman was killed, and several others were injured when an Israeli drone struck a house in the Sabra neighborhood. Meanwhile, in the southern Gaza Strip, an Israeli drone targeted a house in eastern Khan Younis, killing four Palestinians, including a woman.
Local sources further revealed that the Israeli army demolished dozens of residential buildings in Khan Younis and the Saudi neighborhood in western Rafah.
Palestinian Civil Defense teams managed to retrieve the bodies of four individuals and several injured persons after Israeli forces targeted homes in the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza.
The ongoing Israeli offensive, which began following an Oct. 7 attack last year by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, has faced international condemnation and a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire. Despite this, the Israeli onslaught has resulted in nearly 40,100 deaths, mostly women and children, and over 92,500 injuries, according to local health authorities. Over 10 months into the conflict, Gaza remains in ruins, suffering from a crippling blockade of essential supplies such as food, clean water, and medicine.
Israel is currently facing accusations of genocide at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which has ordered an immediate halt to its military operations in Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge before the city was invaded on May 6. — Agencies
