Six citizens were killed and others were injured tonight when the Israeli occupation bombed a house in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that 6 citizens were killed and others were injured as a result of the occupation bombing of a house belonging to the Muammar family in the Al-Hakr area in Deir al-Balah.

The occupation artillery also fired shells towards the town of Al-Qarara, northeast of Khan Yunis.

In a preliminary toll, the number of killed since the beginning of the occupation's aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7 has risen to 40,334, the majority of whom are children and women, in addition to 93,356 wounded.