The government media office in Gaza announced today (Sunday) that about 700 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.

Director of the Government Media Office, Ismail Al-Thawabta, told reporters that Israel resumed its raids after the end of the humanitarian truce on Friday morning, with an increased intensity of targeting of civilians.

Al-Thawabta added that the Israeli army committed 20 crimes against civilians during the past 24 hours, resulting in about 700 deaths and hundreds of wounded who are still trapped under the rubble of buildings.

He stressed that with the displacement of more than a million and a half people, there is no safe place in the Gaza Strip at a time when the Israeli army is practicing forced displacement against residents of new areas by demanding that they evacuate.

This comes as a medical source at the European Hospital in Rafah announced to Xinhua News Agency that the bodies of 9 dead were recovered as a result of an Israeli raid that targeted at dawn today a house in the El Geneina neighborhood, east of the city.

The source stated that two dead and 10 injured were transported as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in nearby Khan Yunis this morning.
In the central Gaza Strip, security sources said that about 32 people were killed in raids that targeted at least five homes in the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps.

The sources also announced deaths and injuries in several Israeli raids that targeted various areas of Gaza City and its north.