Several Palestinians were martyred and others were injured in an early morning airstrike and artillery shelling carried out by the Israeli occupation forces on the city of Khan Younis, which had previously witnessed the complete destruction of residential blocks by the occupation forces.

Local sources reported that at least four civilians were martyred in the Israeli forces' shelling of the western area of Khan Younis which targeted a house belonging to the al-Kazimi family.

The Israeli occupation forces continued their intensive artillery shelling around the al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis and targeted the central part of the city with several airstrikes and artillery bombardments.

On Thursday evening, several civilians were killed and others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the western part of Gaza City. Meanwhile, the bodies of four Palestinians, who were killed in a shelling in Khan Younis, were transported to the European Hospital.

Local sources confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces launched white phosphorus bombs on the Qizan Al-Najjar area south of Khan Younis. The sources added that the occupation forces shelled the vicinity of the Martyr Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, and targeted the al-Antar Tower in Jabalia town in northern Gaza with a missile.

In addition, the occupation forces surrounded several schools sheltering thousands of displaced people west of Tal al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City. Meanwhile, they continued demolishing residential blocks in the town of Bani Suhaila east of Khan Younis.

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