UPDATE: Nine civilians killed and others wounded in Israeli air attacks on Gaza’s Rafah

GAZA: Nine civilians were killed tonight in Israeli air strikes targeting civilians east of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. A medical source at the European Hospital in Gaza reported that nine bodies and several wounded, including some seriously, arrived at the hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Strip. Earlier tonight, two civilians were killed and others were injured in an Israeli drone shelling that targeted the city of Rafah. One civilian was killed and another was injured in an Israeli drone attack that targeted a house in the neighborhood of Tell es-Sultan, west of the city of Rafah. Another citizen was killed and several others, including children and women, were injured in an Israeli bombing of the Khirbat al-Adas area north of the city. The number of civilians killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the occupation's aggression on October 7, 2023, has risen to 37,347. The number of people injured, mostly children and women, has also increased to 85,372. Source: Palestine new s & Information Agency - WAFA