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31 Palestinians killed in Israeli bombing across Gaza

Published : 29 Aug 2024, 21:45

  DF News Desk
Children are seen outside a building targeted in an Israeli airstrike in the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on Aug. 27, 2024. Photo: Xinhua.

At least 31 Palestinians were killed on Thursday by Israeli bombing across the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian sources, reported Xinhua.

An Israeli drone targeted a gathering of Palestinians east of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip with at least one missile, Palestinian security sources said. Medical sources told Xinhua that the raid killed seven Palestinians and dozens of others wounded.

Meanwhile, three young men were killed in an Israeli drone attack on a motorcycle in the industrial zone north of Rafah city, according to medical sources.

In Gaza City, eight Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid on a house in the vicinity of the Al-Amal Hotel west of the city, according to local sources and eyewitnesses.

The Civil Defense Authority in Gaza said in a brief statement that its crews retrieved the bodies of the victims and a number of the wounded from the house and are still searching for those trapped.

In addition, Palestinian medical sources told Xinhua that the bodies of 13 dead people arrived at hospitals in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, as a result of Israeli shelling of several areas in the city.