At least 29 Palestinians killed as Israeli army launches fresh airstrikes in Gaza

At least 29 Palestinians were killed Thursday in fresh Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip amid a deadly onslaught on the enclave, medics said.

One Palestinian was killed and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike near Al-Mashrou Roundabout, east of Rafah in southern Gaza, according to medical sources.

Two Palestinians were killed and several others wounded when an Israeli warplane bombed a tent sheltering displaced people near the regional junction in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

Shortly before that, Israeli warplanes targeted a house belonging to the Omran family in the town of Al-Fukhari, east of Khan Younis, resulting in the deaths of two Palestinians and multiple injuries.

Israeli warplanes struck a home in the Al-Saftawi neighborhood north of Gaza City, leaving seven people dead, a medical source said.

One Palestinian was also killed in another airstrike targeting a home near Al-Quds University in Gaza City, he added.

Another medical source said that two more people were killed, including a disabled person, by Israeli army fire in southern Gaza City.

Seven more people were killed and two others injured in another strike targeting a home in the northern town of Beit Lahia, the source added.

In central Gaza City, four Palestinians were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli airstrike targeting a civilian gathering on Al-Nafaq Street, a medical source said.

A Palestinian child was also killed and his family members were injured in Israeli shelling of their home in the southern city of Khan Younis.

Israeli fighter jets also struck a tent sheltering displaced people, killing one person and injuring several others in al-Mawasi in Khan Younis, a medical source said.

Medics said that Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua, a spokesman for the Palestinian group Hamas, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the northern town of Jabalia early Thursday.

Two Palestinians were also injured in separate attacks in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, while a civilian was wounded when an Israeli drone opened fire near Tibet al-Nuwairi, west of Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

Additionally, an Israeli airstrike targeted a Palestinian naval police facility west of Nuseirat camp, but no information was yet available about injuries.

Israeli forces also shelled the eastern areas of Gaza City and Khan Younis, the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in central Gaza and Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia north of the enclave, witnesses said.

The Israeli army launched a surprise aerial campaign on the Gaza Strip on March 18, killing 855 people, injuring nearly 1,900 and shattering a ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement between Israel and Hamas that took hold in January.

The UN estimated that around 124,000 Palestinians have been displaced again since Israel resumed its attacks on Gaza.

More than 50,200 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and over 113,900 injured in a brutal Israeli military onslaught on Gaza since October 2023.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.​​​​​​​

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.