Nine citizens, including children, were killed on Friday evening in Israeli air and artillery shelling of several areas in the Gaza Strip.

Local sources and paramedics said that two children were killed when the occupation artillery shelled the Awad family home in the town of Al-Fakhari, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Three citizens were also killed when the occupation forces bombed a house in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Rafah city, in the southern Gaza Strip, while four Palestinian citizens were killed and a child was injured in an occupation air strike in the area west of the Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.