GAZA, Thursday, May 2, 2024 (WAFA) – A Palestinian citizen was killed and several others were injured today as they were targeted by Israeli army gunfire southeast of Gaza City, according to local sources.

WAFA correspondent reported that the Israeli army opened fire on a Palestinian citizen identified as Ahmed Yassin—who worked as a truck driver distributing humanitarian aid—near the Kuwait roundabout in the Zaitoun neighborhood of Gaza City. Yassin was fatally shot, and others were wounded, and were all subsequently transferred to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the city.

Additionally, six citizens were injured as Israeli airstrikes targeted a house in the Hassan al-Banna area of the aforementioned neighborhood.

Warplanes also conducted raids on the Bureij refugee camp and others areas of the central Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian death toll from Israel's deadly aggression against the Gaza Strip since October 7th, 2023, has now surged to 34,596, medical sources confirmed today.

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