At least 10 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza Strip: sources

GAZA, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) — At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Thursday, according to Palestinian sources.
Palestinian security sources reported that an Israeli drone targeted a gathering in northern Rafah, a city located in the southern Gaza Strip. Medical sources said two people were killed in the attack.
The Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza said in a press statement that a Palestinian was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent sheltering displaced people west of Khan Younis city in southern Gaza.
Meanwhile, ambulance and civil defense crews retrieved the bodies of three Palestinians, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a gathering near a school-turned-shelter for the displaced in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, according to local sources and eyewitnesses.
The Israeli army also bombed displacement tents in the courtyard of the al-Aqsa Hospital in the city of Deir al-Balah. Medical sources told Xinhua that the shelling killed four Palestinians and wounded several others.
Israel launched a large-scale offensive against Hamas in Gaza to retaliate against a Hamas rampage through the southern Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, during which about 1,200 people were killed and more than 200 others were taken hostage.
The nearly 11 months of Israeli assaults have resulted in 40,878 Palestinian deaths and 94,454 injuries in the coastal enclave, with 17 individuals killed and 56 injured in the past 24 hours, according to Gaza-based health authorities on Thursday. ■