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Several Gaza aid workers killed in Israeli bombardment: Civil defence

Gaza’s civil defence agency says its workers were hit by fire from an Israeli warplane while carrying out “their humanitarian work”.

The agency “announces the martyrdom of three of its cadres and the injury of a number of others, working in the Bureij centre”, the organisation posted on X.

Bureij and Gaza’s first-responders have repeatedly been attacked since the war began. Israeli forces launched an offensive earlier this year for several weeks in Bureij and several other nearby refugee camps in central Gaza.

Deaths, injuries in southern Gaza following Israeli strike

Several people have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli attack on the coastal area of al-Mawasi, northwest Rafah, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.

Last week, an Israeli attack near the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) base at the al-Mawasi camp – designated by Israel as “a safe zone” – killed at least 25 people and wounded 50 others.


At least 7 dead, dozens wounded after Israeli attacks on Gaza City

Muhammad Ghurab, a doctor at Gaza City’s al-Ahli Hospital, said the facility so far received seven “martyrs including four children” and more than 40 others wounded “as the Israeli forces advanced to the east of Shujayea neighbourhood”.

Hamas’s press office reported “a significant displacement of residents” around Shujayea. Israel’s military ordered residents to head south to a declared “humanitarian zone” about 25km (15 miles) away. Such zones have repeatedly been attacked in the past.


A child wounded in an Israeli strike receives treatment in Gaza City on Thursday


Death toll likely to rise in Shujayea as rescuers scour the debris

Rescuers are still digging through the rubble for survivors after Israeli forces attacked the Shujayea neighbourhood in northern Gaza City with dozens reported wounded and several killed, including four children.

Gaza’s civil defence agency says its teams are unable to reach some of the victims because of ongoing Israeli fire. Residents said they were taken by surprise by tanks rolling in and shooting at midday with drones also attacking.

“It sounded as if the war is restarting, a series of bombings that destroyed several houses in our area and shook the buildings,” said Mohammad Jamal, 25, a resident.

Gaza City was heavily bombed in the opening weeks of the war. Israel ordered the evacuation of all of northern Gaza. Hundreds of thousands of people have remained in the north, even as Israeli troops have surrounded and besieged it.


An Israeli strike on Gaza City’s eastern suburb of Shujayea on Thursday


‘They are targeting children’ in Gaza City attack

Footage shows women, men and children carrying bags and food as they ran in the streets after the Israeli air strikes and artillery barrage began. Some men carried wounded children in their arms as they fled.

“This is the [Israeli] occupation targeting us as you can see. You can see the children, the targeting of children here,” said one Palestinian man carrying a bleeding boy in his arms.