UPDATE – At least 24 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza

UPDATES DEATH TOLL, CHANGES HEADLINE, EDITS THROUGH

By Hosni Nadim and Mohamed Majed

GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – At least 24 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured in Israeli airstrikes across the war-torn Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to medical sources.

Seven people lost their lives and several others were injured in an Israeli strike targeting Kafr Qasim School, where thousands of displaced civilians have sheltered in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal said in a statement.

Four more people were killed and 15 others injured in another airstrike on a house in the central city of Deir al-Balah, he added.

Fighter jets hit another house north of Rafah in southern Gaza, killing four people, while six more lost their lives when a drone shelled a group of civilians east of the city, the spokesman said.

Two more people were killed in artillery shelling in the town of Khuza'a, east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, medics said.

One civilian was also killed and another injured in a drone attack west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, a local source said.

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

More than 41,400 people, mostly women and children, have since been killed and over 95,800 injured, according to local health authorities.

The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the territory amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel faces accusations of genocide at the International Court of Justice for its actions in Gaza.

*Writing by Ikram Kouachi and Rania Abu Shamala