Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza reported a rise in the number of martyrs following an Israeli airstrike that targeted a building housing internally displaced people in Rafah, resulting in seven martyrs.

Occupation ships bombed two buildings being used as a refuge by internally displaced Palestinians on the northern coast of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Additionally, the occupation's warplanes carried out airstrikes on areas in the city center.

Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza reported an increase in the number of martyrs to 17, following the targeting of the Bureiss family house, which housed internally displaced individuals, west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

He also explained that ambulances were unable to reach the targeted areas due to the occupation's shelling and confrontations with the Resistance, especially in Khan Younis, where intense clashes took place between the Resistance and occupation forces in the northern and eastern parts of the city.

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Intense confrontations erupted between the Resistance and occupation forces at the eastern entrance of the town of al-Zawaida and the outskirts of the al-Nuseirat area in the central Gaza Strip. Additionally, the occupation targeted a school in the al-Maghazi refugee camp, and its aircraft struck agricultural lands north of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

It is worth mentioning that the aggression has put 30 hospitals in the Gaza Strip out of service. To date, the Israeli occupation has committed 1,903 massacres, and occupation soldiers reportedly stole money and gold worth more than $24 million from the Gaza Strip, according to the government office.

12 families massacred in Gaza

This comes after the Ministry of Health in Gaza reported on Saturday that the Israeli occupation committed 12 massacres against families in the Strip, killing 122 and injuring 256 within the past 24 hours. In total, the Israeli occupation's massacres resulted in 29,722 Palestinian martyrs and missing persons.

Meanwhile, Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation conducted unprecedented airstrikes and heavy artillery shelling on central areas of Gaza, most notably Deir al-Balah, al-Maghazi, al-Bureij, al-Nuseirat, and Salah al-Din Street in recent hours.

In Khan Younis, the IOF committed a new massacre in the al-Manara neighborhood, targeting a residence housing forcibly displaced families from the northern areas, resulting in the killing of at least 18 people, mostly women and children.