GAZA CITY, Palestine/ANKARA – At least 66 Palestinians, including 27 aid seekers, were killed Saturday in Israeli airstrikes that hit multiple locations across the Gaza Strip, according to medical and local sources.
An airstrike on Jamal Abdel Nasser Street, opposite the Islamic University in western Gaza City, killed a mother and her three children.
In the city’s eastern Al-Tuffah neighborhood, four women were killed and 10 other civilians wounded when an Israeli missile hit a house near Yaffa School.
Three members of the same family were killed in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City after an airstrike targeted a residential apartment.
Two more Palestinians were killed in a separate strike on a home in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighborhood.
Central Gaza City
In the central Gaza Strip, a child was killed and others injured when a home near Al-Hassaina School west of the Nuseirat refugee camp was bombed.
Local sources said an Israeli drone also struck a tent sheltering displaced families in the Al-Mansura area of Deir al-Balah, killing seven Palestinians, including four of the same family.
Two women were also killed when an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment in the eastern part of the city.
Near the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, three Palestinians were killed when a tent sheltering displaced people was targeted.
Southern Gaza Strip
In Khan Younis, 11 Palestinians, including children and a woman, were killed when Israeli warplanes bombed tents sheltering displaced families near the Kuwaiti Hospital in Al-Mawasi area.
Separately, rescue teams recovered the bodies of two more victims from the Sheikh Nasser neighborhood in Khan Younis.
Humanitarian aid seekers
At least 27 Palestinians were killed and 180 others injured when Israeli forces opened fire on civilians waiting for humanitarian aid north of Rafah city in southern Gaza, according to medical sources.
Eyewitnesses said Israeli troops fired directly at crowds gathered near the Al-Shakoush aid distribution point, where hundreds had assembled in hopes of receiving food and basic supplies amid worsening famine conditions in the besieged enclave.
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