At least seven Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza

An early-morning strike hits a group of civilians in ​​Bureij camp as drones attack a tent in Khan Younis displacement site.At least seven Palestinians have been killed, and others wounded, in Israeli strikes across the central and southern Gaza Strip.An Israeli drone fired two missiles close to a police post in Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, Mahmoud Bassal, a spokesman for Gaza’s civil defence rescue service told the AFP news agency on Saturday.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3‘Neither war nor peace’: What Gaza looks like six months into ‘ceasefire’list 2 of 3Israeli settlers turn Passover into celebration of ethnic cleansinglist 3 of 3OIC condemns Israeli approval of 34 new West Bank settlementsend of listMedical sources confirmed the early morning attack to Al Jazeera, saying the strike hit a group of civilians in the “Block 9” area of Bureij. Several people were killed and seriously wounded, they said.Ambulance crews faced difficult conditions as they worked to transport the bodies and those injured to nearby hospitals, the sources added.The Al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza told AFP it had received six bodies and seven wounded people, including four in critical condition. The nearby al-Awda hospital said it received one fatality and two wounded people.Separately, in the southern Gaza Strip, Nasser Medical Complex said it received three wounded people following an Israeli drone strike against a tent of displaced people in the town of Bani Suheila, located east of Khan Younis.Al Jazeera’s correspondent on the ground also reported Israeli artillery shelling and heavy tank fire near Bani Suheila and east of Gaza City.Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed more than 72,300 people since it began in October 2023, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, including at least 738 since the so-called ceasefire went into effect last October.The tally includes at least 32 deaths since the start of April alone – among them Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah, who was killed in an attack west of Gaza City earlier this week.