Official sources says 36 Palestinians killed in overnight Israeli strikes across Gaza

Anjali Sharma

GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC,2nd April.  Palestinian sources said on Monday that 36 Palestinians were killed and dozens others wounded in overnight Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip,.

The news media reported that in the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Younis, at least 11 were killed and dozens of others injured on Sunday in an Israeli drone attack targeted a group of Palestinians.

The sources said a Palestinian woman and her child were killed in an Israeli artillery shelling that targeted a residential house in the “Al-Mawasi” area, west of Khan Younis.

Local sources and eyewitnesses said that in northern Gaza, 17 Palestinians were killed and 30 wounded in the Israeli bombing on Saturday night of a gathering of Palestinians who were waiting for aid at the “Kuwait” roundabout in the Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, south of Gaza City.

In Maghazi Palestinian refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, 6 people were killed after an aircraft bombed a residential house.

Ambulance crews and the Civil Defence Service have rushed to recover some other residents buried under the rubble of the camp.

Israeli forces launched airstrikes and intense artillery shelling on the outskirts of the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian security sources.

The sources told news outlets that the air and artillery bombardment was accompanied by an incursion of mobile troops into the “Al-Baraka” area, which lasted for several hours, during which an unidentified person was arrested from one of the houses.

Israel has launched a large-scale offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip to retaliate against a Hamas surprise assault in southern Israeli border on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people and 240 were taken hostage.