The number of Palestinians killed in Gaza on the 347th day of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war has risen to 41,252 with 95,497 people wounded, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said on Tuesday.

In its daily report, the ministry mentioned that Israeli occupation forces committed three massacres in Gaza, killing 26 people and wounding 84 others in just 24 hours, not counting those killed in the newest massacres.

Israeli occupation forces carried out a massacre on Tuesday in the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, targeting a densely populated residential area, killing over 50 people, an Al Mayadeen correspondent confirmed.

The Civil Defense in Gaza reported that the residential area was bombed using heavy US-made bombs.

Over 20 civilians killed in a new israeli massacre this morning as homes owned by the Tartouri and the Abu Shouka families in Bureij are bombed pic.twitter.com/rrqrcMGQna

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It noted that Israeli drones opened fire at Civil Defense teams as they arrived at the scene of the massacre, obstructing their efforts to rescue the wounded and remove the bodies of the martyrs.

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The Civil Defense urgently called on the Red Cross to coordinate access for its teams to rescue dozens still trapped beneath the destroyed buildings, adding that they had received numerous distress calls from within the homes hit by the occupation.

Entire families were erased from the civil registry in the al-Bureij massacre, with the majority of the martyrs still trapped beneath the rubble, the civil defense added.

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