GAZA, April 17, 2025 (WAFA) – Several Palestinian civilians were killed and wounded on Thursday in Israeli shelling of various areas in the Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent reported that several citizens were killed and others were wounded when the Israeli occupation bombed a group of citizens on Nazir Street in the Al-Sha'af area east of Gaza City.

He added that other citizens were killed as a result of Israeli artillery shelling of the Shuja'iyya area east of Gaza City.

He pointed out that Israeli helicopters fired intensively at the northern areas of Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip, and an Israeli drone also launched an airstrike south of Al-Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that 23 citizens, including 16 children, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on tents housing displaced persons in the Gaza Strip since last night.

The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has risen to 51,065 martyrs and 116,505 wounded.

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