At least 19 Palestinians were martyred and others were injured in an Israeli occupation bombing that targeted Gaza and Rafah cities Friday.

Local Palestinian sources said that at least 13 Palestinians were killed when Israeli warplanes bombed two houses in the Musbah area north of Rafah city, south of the Strip.

They noted that three other Palestinians were martyred when the occupation targeted a vehicle near the Abbas intersection west of Gaza City, and a fourth Palestinian was martyred when a residential house was bombed near Palestine Stadium in the center of the city, in addition to another Palestinian being martyred as a result of bombing that targeted a group of citizens in Al Shaaf Street east of the city.

The Palestinian civil defense said that its crews also recovered the body of a martyr who was riding a bicycle that was targeted by an Israeli drone in Rafah.

The number of martyrs in the Gaza Strip, since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on October 7 of last year, has risen to 41,272, th
e majority of whom were children and women, while the number of injuries has reached 95,551, with thousands of victims still under the rubble due to Israeli restrictions.

Source: Qatar News Agency