Dozens of people died due to Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip. At least five Palestinians were killed and ten more were injured as a result of an Israeli Air Force raid on residential buildings in the city of Khan Yunis.
The residential areas of Sheikh Ajlin, Tell el-Hawa and Al-Zaytoun in Gaza City were also hit by Israeli artillery, causing several casualties, mostly women and children. Earlier it became known that the Israeli military shot two people and buried them with a bulldozer.