Israeli occupation forces withdrew on Friday from the vicinity of Street 5 and Al-Salam Hospital in Khan Younis, located in the southern Gaza Strip, Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported.

Following their withdrawal, several bodies of martyrs were recovered from the area, according to the correspondent.

Earlier in the day, five Palestinians, including a child, were killed in Israeli shelling targeting areas east of Khan Younis and Jabalia camp in northern Gaza. In a separate attack, Israeli aircraft targeted a house in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, leading to the martyrdom of three more people and injuries to others.

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Additionally, two Palestinians, one of whom was a child, were killed when Israeli forces shelled a residential apartment near the al-Hawja intersection in Jabalia camp, northern Gaza.

Medical sources report that 54 Palestinians have been killed since early Thursday in a series of Israeli airstrikes concentrated on homes in Gaza City, as well as in the al-Shati camp, Nuseirat, and Deir al-Balah camps.

IOF deliberately targets new humanitarian aid convoy

Earlier today, a humanitarian organization said that Israeli occupation forces deliberately targeted their aid convoy in the Gaza Strip, killing several members of its crew.

The truck, coordinated by Anera, a US-based NGO, and approved by the IOF, was carrying life-saving medical supplies and fuel to a Gazan hospital before being targeted. Anera's Palestine country director, Sandra Rasheed, revealed that while one crew member was unharmed, several others were killed in the attack.

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The aid convoy that was struck had previously coordinated its route with the IOF under a "deconfliction process" which prevents aid trucks from being bombed, but was then targeted by an Israeli airstrike under claims of its members being "armed assailants".

"Tragically, several individuals, all employed by the transportation company we work with, were killed in the attack. They were in the first vehicle of the convoy."

On Thursday, marking day 328 of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza reported that the total number of Palestinians killed since the Israeli war started on October 7 has risen to 40,602, and those injured to 93,855.

While a number of wounded Palestinians were transported to partially functioning hospitals and medical centers, others remain trapped beneath the rubble, with defense and rescue crews unable to reach them, the ministry pointed out.