At least 54 people, including a journalist and a Civil Defense officer, were killed on Saturday in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza, reported Xinhua, quoting Palestinian sources.
In southern Gaza, an Israeli drone targeted a vehicle and a crowd receiving flour in the Qizan al-Najjar area, south of Khan Younis, eyewitnesses said.
Rescue workers told Xinhua that medical teams retrieved the bodies of 12 people and that the injured were transferred to hospitals.
In northern Gaza, at least 40 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the home of the Al-Araj family, which was sheltering displaced people in the Tal Al-Zatar area of Beit Lahia, the Civil Defense said in a statement.
"A large number of victims are still trapped under the rubble, and it is difficult to retrieve them due to the absence of Civil Defense and medical workers," it said.
The Civil Defense also said that one of its officers died in an Israeli airstrike targeting residential houses in the Jabalia camp.
Meanwhile, the Hamas-run Gaza media office reported in a statement the death of a journalist working for Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV after he was shot in the parking lot of the Baptist Hospital in Gaza.
The Israeli army has not commented on the attacks yet.
Also on Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that an Israeli soldier from an engineering battalion was killed, another soldier seriously wounded in fighting in northern Gaza, and an Israeli armored fighter was seriously wounded in southern Gaza.
The IDF said earlier in separate statements that the Israeli Air Force, with the direction of the Intelligence Directorate, struck a ready-to-launch launching site directed toward southern Israel, in the humanitarian area in Deir al Balah, central Gaza.
Over the past week, IDF troops conducted searches near a hospital and a mosque in Rafah, southern Gaza, and located weapons, anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles, ammunition, AK-47 rifles, grenades, military vests, and more, it added.
Israel has been launching a large-scale offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip to retaliate against a Hamas rampage through the southern Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, during which about 1,200 people were killed and about 250 taken hostage.
The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks in Gaza has risen to 44,382, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement on Saturday.
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Source: www.dailyfinland.fi
