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GAZA, May 18 (Xinhua) — At least 64 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinian Civil Defense spokesman in Gaza Mahmoud Bazal told Xinhua.
Israeli artillery shelled a group of Palestinians trying to reach their homes in the Ash-Shujaiya area of eastern Gaza City, killing seven young people and wounding several others, he said.
M. Bazal added that four people, including a woman and two children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit the gate of the Salah al-Din school, which houses displaced families, in western Gaza City. Another person was killed in an airstrike on an apartment in the north of the city.
At least 11 people were killed in an attack on a group of Palestinians and nine others in an Israeli airstrike on a warehouse containing humanitarian aid in the city of Deir el-Balah in the central part of the enclave, M. Bazal said.
At least 13 people were killed in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, and another 19 in Jabalya, Beit Lahia and Beit Hanoun in the north, he said.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday morning that over the past 24 hours it had “begun to launch massive strikes and mobilize troops to establish operational control in areas of the Gaza Strip.”
At least 3,131 Palestinians have been killed and 8,632 wounded since Israel resumed intensified military operations in the Palestinian enclave on March 18, Gaza-based health authorities said Saturday, bringing the total number of Gaza deaths since October 2023 to 53,272 and the number of wounded to 120,673. –0–