Gaza’s civil defence agency has said that Israeli strikes yesterday killed 50 people in the territory, AFP reports.

“Fifty martyrs have been counted as a result of continuous Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since dawn,” civil defence official Mohammed al-Mughayyir told AFP.

They included nine people killed in a strike on a group of civilians in the east of Gaza City in the north of the territory.

The hospital in the southern town of Khan Younis said it had received the bodies of seven people killed in a strike on a house. The hospital in al-Awda said it had received four bodies and several people wounded from a strike on a cafe near the central Bureij camp.

 A man carrying a child walks amid the rubble, following an Israeli strike at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on April 27, 2025. — AFP
A man carrying a child walks amid the rubble, following an Israeli strike at the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on April 27, 2025. — AFP

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