31 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza

KABUL (Pajhwok): At least 31 Palestinians, including six children, have been killed in Israeli bombardments across Gaza, a day before the Rafah border crossing is scheduled to reopen, media reports said

Medical sources told Al Jazeera that an Israeli air strike on Saturday hit a tent sheltering displaced people in the al-Mawasi area, northwest of Khan Younis, killing at least seven Palestinians, including three children.

In Gaza City, emergency services said an Israeli air attack struck an apartment building in the Remal neighbourhood west of the city, killing at least five Palestinians, including three children.

“We could feel the shockwaves of the explosions, followed by a huge, dark cloud of dust that filled the area,” a witness said, adding that at least five people, including a mother and her children, were killed inside the residential apartment.

Separately, eight Palestinians were injured in an Israeli bombing of another apartment building in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Meanwhile, the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) condemned the latest Israeli attacks, describing the truce as “a ceasefire in name only.”

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