13 citizens were killed today, Sunday, as a result of Israeli aircraft and artillery bombing various areas in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and an elderly person in Gaza City, on the 177th day of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Strip.

Medical sources reported that 11 citizens were killed and dozens injured in an Israeli bombing on a group of citizens in Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis.

The sources added that a woman and her child were killed in an Israeli artillery shelling that targeted the home of the Majeeda family in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis.

Local sources said that violent explosions rocked areas west of the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli aircraft bombed a residential tower in the city of Al-Assira, northwest of Al-Nuseirat, in the middle of the Gaza Strip.

An elderly citizen died from his injuries after the Israeli army bombed his house near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip.

The Israeli artillery targeted homes west of Gaza City, and the forces also fired smoke bombs in the vicinity of the Kuwait Roundabout, south of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza.

Negotiations aimed at reaching an exchange deal and a truce between Israel and the Hamas movement in Gaza will resume in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, in the latest attempt to reach an agreement by Egypt and Qatar, which are playing a mediating role in this regard, as they continue their joint efforts to achieve progress in the negotiations between the two sides.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave the green light to hold new talks with the aim of reaching a truce in the besieged Gaza Strip, which is subject to continuous bombardment, while its residents face the threat of “imminent famine,” according to the United Nations.