Gaza City – Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Saturday resulted in the deaths of at least 21 Palestinians, according to local security and medical sources. The strikes targeted multiple areas, including a residential neighborhood and a school.

According to Namibia Press Agency, an Israeli warplane launched a missile at a home in the al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City, which led to the deaths of 10 Palestinians, among them three children and a woman. Additionally, the Palestinian Civil Defense reported that an airstrike near a school in northwest Gaza City killed at least five people. Further south, in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, shelling of a tent housing displaced individuals resulted in six more deaths, as confirmed by local sources and eyewitness accounts.

The Israeli military has not provided comments on the incidents. This series of attacks is part of a broader offensive that Israel commenced against Hamas on October 7, 2023, following a significant incursion into southern Israel by the group, which left approximately 1,200 people dead and 250 others taken hostage.

On the same day, Gaza-based health authorities reported that the Palestinian death toll from the ongoing conflict had reached 41,182. In a separate but related incident, a Palestinian paramedic named Hamdan Abu Anaba, who had been detained by the Israeli army in December 2023, died in an Israeli prison. Abu Anaba had been a medical worker at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis and was arrested at the Netzarim checkpoint in the central Gaza Strip.