At least 15 Palestinian citizens died and others were injured, some seriously, in a bombardment by the Israeli army in the center and south of the Gaza Strip in the early hours of Saturday, the .Wafa agency reported. The attacks occurred against two houses in the Al Hakar area, in Deir al Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip, and in the Al Manara neighborhood, east of Khan Yunis, in the south. The attack on Khan Yunis left a dozen people dead, most of them children and women, and also left various injuries, all of whom were transferred to the city's European Hospital, according to Wafa. Sources from Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital quoted by the same news agency reported that 35 dead and more than 60 injured, mostly children and women, had arrived at the aforementioned hospital as of Saturday midnight. The death toll from Israel's offensive against the Gaza Strip following October 7 attacks by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has risen to 22,600, Gaza authorities controlled by the Palestinian Islamist group said on Friday.
