Al Jazeera reported that 12 citizens were killed, including six children and a baby, when artillery opened fire on displaced people’s tents in the Asdaa area of the southern city of Khan Yunis.

An unknown number were also injured in the incident, the source said, reporting two more deaths in a shelling of a house at the Maghazi refugee camp.

Al-Awda Hospital announced the arrival of numerous civilians injured as a result of another Israeli drone raid on an apartment in the Nuseirat refugee camp.

The Israeli security cabinet approved on Thursday the start of a ground offensive to reoccupy the city of Gaza, for which some 60,000 reservists began mobilizing.

Although the Israeli press claimed that the campaign will not begin before September, even October, the Armed Forces intensified in recent days their attacks and advances on several neighborhoods of the city, where many victims, displaced persons and widespread destruction were reported.

According to official data, more than 62,000 Palestinians were killed and another 157,000 were injured as a result of the Israeli aggression against Gaza, which began in October 2022.

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