Updated | 30 dead, including 7 aid seekers, since dawn

Sources in Gaza hospitals confirmed that 30 Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire in the Strip since dawn today, including seven aid seekers.

The official WAFA news agency reported that five citizens, including three women and a child, were killed and more than 20 others were injured in the occupation's bombing of displaced people's tents in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis.

It added that a citizen and her son were killed and nine others were injured when an Israeli drone bombed Al-Hanawi School northwest of Khan Yunis. A child was also killed and others were injured in a bombing that targeted a tent housing displaced people near Al-Ard Al-Tayyiba in Mawasi, Khan Yunis.

It pointed out that other citizens were killed and others were injured when the occupation forces bombed the Sahloul family home near the Al-Shafi'i Mosque in the western camp in Khan Yunis.

The occupation forces' artillery fired shells, simultaneously with heavy gunfire on the eastern, western and northern areas of Gaza City.

Over the past 24 hours, 56 civilians were killed in the ongoing Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

The ongoing Israeli war of extermination on the Gaza Strip, which began on October 7, 2023, has left more than 198,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced, and famine has claimed the lives of many, including children, as well as widespread destruction.