Gaza City: Eleven Palestinians were killed and others injured in Israeli shelling of several areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn today.

According to National Iraqi News Agency, the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported that five Palestinians, including two girls, were killed in an Israeli drone strike on tents for displaced people in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. A girl also died of wounds she sustained in a previous Israeli shelling of Khan Yunis.

In addition, four Palestinians were killed and about 70 others were injured by Israeli army fire near an aid center west of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. Another individual was killed and others were injured by Israeli forces’ fire near an aid distribution center at the so-called “Netzarim axis” in the central Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza announced yesterday that the number of victims of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has risen to 54,772 martyrs and 125,834 wounded, most of them children and women. A number of victims remain under the rubble and in the streets, with debris crews unable to reach them.