NNA - At least nine Palestinians, including women and children, were killed early this Friday morning in Israeli airstrikes targeting Gaza City and Rafah.

According to local reports, four individuals were killed when Israeli forces bombed a house belonging to the Abu Beid family in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City. Additionally, a young girl was killed following an attack on her family’s home in the Sedra area of Gaza City.

In Rafah, a woman succumbed to injuries sustained when Israeli airstrikes hit their home in the Nassr neighborhood, east of the city.

Simultaneously, three Palestinians were also killed and several injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house belonging to the Harara family near the Al-Istijaba Mosque in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City.

The ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza since October 2023 has so far resulted in at least 45,399 documented Palestinian fatalities, with over 107,940 others injured.

Thousands of victims are feared trapped under rubble, inaccessible to emergency and civil defense teams due to Israeli attacks.

Israel's genocidal attacks continue unabated despite calls from the UN Security Council for an immediate ceasefire and directives from the International Court of Justice urging measures to prevent genocide and alleviate the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. ----WAFA

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