UPDATE - 4 women, 4 children among 24 killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

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By Anadolu staff

ANKARA (AA) – At least 24 Palestinians were killed, including four women and four children, and dozens of others injured as the Israeli army continued its assault on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with airstrikes early Saturday morning.

According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, 11 Palestinians were killed and 15 others injured when Israeli fighter jets bombed a house in the Al-Amal neighborhood west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Medical sources told Anadolu that "the body of a martyr and three injuries were shifted to the Kuwait Specialized Field Hospital after firing from Israeli vehicles towards tents for displaced people on Street 5 west of Khan Younis.”

The Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza also said in a statement that five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli shelling targeting a motorcycle in the Al-Katiba area in Khan Younis.

Separately, three more Palestinians were killed and several others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a residential apartment in the Ayn Jalut Towers in Nuseirat Camp of central Gaza, the news agency said.

Four more Palestinians were killed in an Israeli bombardment of a residential apartment in the Nuseirat camp, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense, which did not provide any further information.

In Gaza City, the Israeli army continues intensive air and artillery bombardment of the Zeitoun and Al-Sabra neighborhoods south of the city, according to eyewitnesses.

Israel has continued its brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip following an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas last Oct. 7, despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.

The onslaught has resulted in over 40,200 Palestinian deaths, mostly women and children, and over 93,000 injuries, according to local health authorities.

An ongoing blockade of Gaza has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine, leaving much of the region in ruins.

Israel faces accusations of genocide at the International Court of Justice, which has ordered a halt to military operations in the southern city of Rafah, where over one million Palestinians had sought refuge before the area was invaded on May 6.

* Writing by Ikram Kouachi