GAZA, Aug 16 (Xinhua) — At least 46 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Friday, the Civil Defence said, reported Xinhua.
Mahmoud Basal, a spokesperson for the Civil Defence Authority, said seven people were killed in an airstrike that targeted a tent housing displaced persons in the Al-Rimal neighbourhood in western Gaza City.
He said that six others, including two children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a school building where displaced people were staying in the al-Daraj neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
At least 24 people, including a woman and two children, were killed by the Israeli army while waiting to receive food in front of aid distribution centres north of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, at the Netzarim junction in the centre of the Strip, and the Zikim crossing in the north, according to Basal.
He added that four people, including a girl, were killed in Israeli shelling that targeted Palestinian gatherings and a residential house in the Zeitoun and Tuffah neighbourhoods in eastern Gaza City.
Two were killed in an airstrike on a tent housing displaced persons on the roof of the outpatient clinic building at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Basal noted.
Three Palestinians, including an infant, were also killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a tent housing displaced persons west of Gaza City, according to Basal.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said in statements on Friday that IDF troops, in coordination with the Air Forces, continue operational activity against “terrorist organisations” throughout the Gaza Strip, including Gaza City and Khan Younis.
Since Israel resumed its intensified military campaign on March 18, at least 10,300 Palestinians have been killed and 43,234 injured, bringing the overall death toll in Gaza since the war began in October 2023 to 61,827 and 155,275 people injured, according to health authorities in Gaza on Friday.
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