Gaza: At least 34 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others wounded in airstrikes carried out by the Israeli army across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Gaza’s civil defence said.
Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the civil defence, told Xinhua that the Israeli army targeted several residential homes, gatherings, and tents housing displaced persons in various areas of the coastal enclave.
At least 13 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on two houses in the west and south of Gaza City, Basal said.
Three other people were killed in two Israeli drone attacks in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, while two were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a house in the town of Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip.
Nine people were killed, including four in an Israeli airstrike on a cafe in the city of Deir al-Balah and five in an attack on a Palestinian gathering north of the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to Basal.
Seven others were killed in Israeli shelling targeting a gathering in the town of Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip and another in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis in the south, said Basal.
Since Israel resumed its intensified military campaign on March 18, at least 2,111 Palestinians have been killed and 5,483 injured, bringing the overall death toll in Gaza since the war began in October 2023 to 51,495, with a total of 117,524 people injured, according to health authorities in Gaza on Saturday.
As the Israeli army continues its military operations, clashes between the Israeli military and Palestinian militants break out in various areas of the Strip.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said in a statement that “our members attacked Israeli soldiers entrenched inside a house in the Shuja’iyya neighbourhood in eastern Gaza on Saturday.”
The attack led to multiple Israeli soldiers’ casualties, the brigades added.
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