Nine citizens were killed and others were injured today, Friday, in an Israeli occupation bombing of the cities of Gaza and Khan Yunis.

The official WAFA news agency reported that paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent transferred the bodies of five dead and injured people to Al-Shifa Hospital, as a result of the occupation bombing of the Hamduna family home in the vicinity of the Al-Shati’ Supply Center west of Gaza City. It added that the martyrs were identified as: Obaida Surur, Hassan Hamduna, Radwan Tanira, and Muhammad Abu Sultan.

He added that the bodies of four martyrs, including two women and an infant, were recovered from a house belonging to the Al-Farra family, which was subjected to an Israeli missile attack, in the Al-Manara neighborhood in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.

He pointed out that a number of citizens were injured as a result of the occupation artillery shelling south of the Al-Jafrawi area, southeast of the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, and they were transferred to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city.

The occupation forces have continued their aggression on the Gaza Strip, by land, sea and air, since October 7, 2023, which has resulted in the martyrdom of 41,788 citizens and the injury of 96,794 others, most of whom are children and women, in an incomplete toll, as thousands of people are still missing under the rubble.