A citizen was killed and others were injured on Thursday in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the central Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll in the Strip since dawn today to 18.

Local sources reported that a citizen was killed and others were injured in an airstrike launched by an Israeli drone on the home of the Al-Shaarawi family near Al-Sawarah School, southwest of Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip.

Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat announced the arrival of the body of a martyr and an injured person from the Al-Sawarha area.

In a related development, a civilian was injured by Israeli drone fire on Al-Nazzaz Street in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, coinciding with artillery shelling targeting the eastern Shuja'iyya and Al-Tuffah neighborhoods, east of Gaza City.

This morning, medical sources reported that the death toll from the Israeli bombing of a home belonging to the Rayan family near the Tal al-Rabi' School in the town of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, had risen to nine.

The sources added that two citizens were killed when the occupation forces bombed a house in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood.

She added that a girl was killed and four others were injured as a result of the occupation's artillery shelling of the tents of the displaced west of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, while a child was injured by occupation bullets in the foot near the Al-Sumoud camp in Al-Mawasi.

Local sources said that two fishermen were injured by Israeli naval fire off the coast of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, while Israeli artillery shelled the city's Al-Batn Al-Sameen area.

The body of a child who went missing after the occupation forces bombed a school housing displaced persons in Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip two days ago was found this morning.

Since October 7, 2023, the occupation has been committing genocidal crimes in Gaza, leaving more than 171,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.