Nine citizens, most of them children and women, were killed and others were injured at dawn on Thursday in various parts of the Gaza Strip, which is witnessing violent shelling by air, land and sea for the 328th consecutive day.

According to local sources, eight citizens were killed, including a child, and three others were seriously injured, when the occupation aircraft bombed a residential building in the vicinity of the Al-Amal Hotel, west of Gaza City.

A citizen was killed and others were injured when the occupation forces bombed a house in Al-Shati camp.

The occupation boats are firing their heavy machine guns towards Al-Qarara Beach, northwest of Khan Yunis, and the beach of Tal Al-Hawa neighbourhood, west of Gaza City.

Artillery shelling continues on the eastern areas of Deir al-Balah city, in the central Gaza Strip, and the northwest of Rafah city, in the south.

The occupation forces have continued their aggression by land, sea and air on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, which has resulted in the martyrdom of 40,534 citizens and the injury of 93,778 others, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them.