At least seven Palestinians were killed and several others injured in Israeli attacks across central and southern Gaza, according to medical sources and civil defence officials.
An Israeli drone strike early in the morning targeted a group of civilians in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, Gaza civil defence spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told AFP.
The strike reportedly involved two missiles fired near a police post in the Block 9 area of the camp, Al Jazeera reported.
Medical sources said the attack caused multiple civilian casualties, while ambulance teams struggled to reach the site and evacuate victims due to ongoing insecurity.
Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah said it received six bodies and seven injured people, four of them in critical condition.
Nearby Al-Awda Hospital confirmed one additional death and two injured.
In a separate incident in southern Gaza, Nasser Medical Complex said it received three injured people after an Israeli drone strike hit a tent sheltering displaced families in Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis.
Al Jazeera correspondents also reported continued Israeli artillery shelling and tank fire near Bani Suheila and eastern Gaza City.
Gaza’s health authorities said more than 72,300 people have been killed since the war began in October 2023.
The ministry said at least 738 people have died since a ceasefire took effect last October, including 32 deaths so far in April.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk condemned the violence, saying the “unrelenting pattern of killings” reflected continued impunity and that Palestinians were being killed in homes, shelters, streets, and medical facilities.
Israeli operations in the occupied West Bank also continued, with raids and arrests reported in multiple areas as tensions remained high across the region.
