Seven Palestinians killed, others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a house in Deir el-Balah

GAZA: At least seven Palestinian civilians were killed and others wounded this evening after Israeli warplanes bombed a residential house in Deir al-Balah, located in the central Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses and medical sources reported that seven fatalities and a large number of injuries were transported to hospital following the intense Israeli airstrikes concentrated in the Hikr area of Deir al-Balah. Additionally, Israeli artillery shelled areas southeast of the Khan Yunis governorate, in the southern Gaza Strip. Earlier today, local health authorities in Gaza reported that Israeli occupation forces perpetrated seven massacres against families in the war-torn region over the previous 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at least 72 Palestinians and the injury of 114 others. This brings the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since October 7 to 32,142 reported fatalities, with an additional 74,412 individuals sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims are women and children. Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse