A child was killed Sunday evening when Israeli warplanes bombed a tent housing displaced people west of Gaza City, bringing the death toll in the Strip on the first day of Eid al-Fitr to at least 43, including 14 children.
Medical sources reported that 43 citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since dawn today. Seventeen of those killed were in Khan Yunis, south of the Strip, including eight children, most of whom were wearing Eid clothes.
Two civilians were killed and two others injured when the occupation forces bombed a tent housing displaced persons near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.
Earlier, five civilians, including a boy and a girl, were killed and others were injured when Israeli aircraft bombed a house in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood east of Gaza City. Two children were also killed when Israeli tanks bombed a house east of Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that two citizens were killed and others were injured when the occupation forces bombed a tent sheltering displaced persons east of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip. A child and a young man also succumbed to their wounds when the occupation forces bombed the Khan Yunis camp and the Al-Mawasi area west of the city, in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society announced the recovery of the bodies of 14 martyrs from the Tel al-Sultan area of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. Among the victims were eight paramedics from the society's crews, five rescue crews, and a UN employee. The victims had been missing for eight days after being besieged by Israeli occupation forces.
Since resuming its genocide in Gaza on March 18, Israel, the occupying power, has killed 921 civilians and injured 2,054 others, most of them children and women, by Saturday morning.
The United Nations said that approximately 124,000 Palestinians were displaced again after the Israeli occupation army resumed its attacks on Gaza and issued "evacuation orders."
Hundreds of thousands of Gazans performed Eid prayers on Sunday amid the rubble of destroyed mosques, in shelters, and next to their destroyed homes. Joy and celebration were absent amid the ongoing Israeli war of extermination, which has been ongoing since October 7, 2023. The war has left more than 164,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 14,000 missing.
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43 dead in the Gaza Strip on the first day of Eid al-Fitr