GAZA, April 22, 2026 (WAFA) – Five citizens, including three children, were killed and others injured on Wednesday evening in an Israeli airstrike targeting a group of citizens in Beit Lahia town, north of the Gaza Strip.

WAFA correspondent, citing medical and local sources, reported that five citizens, including three children, were killed and others sustained serious injuries when an Israeli drone struck a group of citizens near a mosque in the Beit Lahia Project area.

Israeli artillery also shelled the eastern areas of Beit Lahia, with shrapnel falling on citizens’ homes in Beit Lahia's main street.

Earlier, four citizens were injured by Israeli army gunfire east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. In a separate attack, another citizen was seriously injured in a drone strike near the Bani Suhaila roundabout east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Earlier on Wednesday morning, a citizen was killed and others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a group of citizens while they were attempting to remove the rubble of their home in Old Gaza Street in Jabalia town, north of the Strip.

Medical sources in Gaza said the toll of those killed and injured in the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Strip since the start of the offensive on October 7, 2023 has risen to 72,562 and 172,320, respectively.

Since the ceasefire went into effect on October 11, the number of those killed and wounded has reached 786 and 2,217, respectively, while 761 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble.

Many victims remain under the rubble and scattered on the streets, as civil defense and ambulance crews are currently unable to reach them.

T.R.