A number of displaced Palestinians were killed and injured as a result of the Israeli occupation forces’ bombing of areas in the central Gaza Strip, and homes in Gaza City were attacked by Israeli drones.
Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that 10 people were killed and others were injured, most of them children, in an Israeli bombing of a warehouse in the Al-Zawaida area in the central Gaza Strip at dawn on Saturday.
Al Jazeera's correspondent added that the victims were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, and that some of the wounded were in critical condition.
Medical sources told Al Jazeera that the number of martyrs as a result of Israeli raids on residential areas in the Gaza Strip has risen to 26 martyrs since dawn on Friday.
The spokesman for the Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip, Mahmoud Basal, reported that 3 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone attack on a group of citizens in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
A number of Palestinians were also injured in an attack carried out by an Israeli drone on the Hussein family's house in the Al-Farouq Square area in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City, according to the spokesman.
The effects of targeting a barracks near the entrance to the town of Al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip, which resulted in 10 martyrs and a number of wounded #Aljazeera #album pic.twitter.com/IzK6jkWdlO
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Basal added that an Israeli drone also targeted a residential apartment in the Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, without causing any injuries.
Anadolu Agency quoted a medical source as saying that two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike on a residential apartment in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.
At the same time, the occupation forces intensified their artillery shelling of the eastern areas of Deir al-Balah city and al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, where Palestinian families were forced to flee again following new Israeli warnings.
Israel has been continuing its war on Gaza with American support for more than 10 months. International experts have described it as genocide, as tens of thousands have been killed, injured and missing, most of them children and women. Entire families have been erased from the civil registry, and nearly 70% of the civilian infrastructure, including homes, schools and hospitals, has been destroyed.