RAMALLAH, SANA – At least 20 Palestinians, including 9 children, were killed and dozens more wounded—many critically—after the Israeli military struck the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City on Saturday evening.

WAFA news agency reported that the airstrike targeted a group of civilians near Abdel Fattah Hammoud School on Yafa Street in the northeast of Al-Tuffah, causing significant casualties.

In a separate incident, two Palestinians were killed and others injured following Israeli shelling near the entrance to Al-Bureij in central Gaza.

Medical sources confirmed that a total of 58 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed since dawn amid the ongoing Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.

Amer Dhawa