GAZA CITY — Three Palestinians, including a young girl, were killed Monday in an Israeli airstrike on a camp for displaced people in the southern Gaza Strip, officials said.Civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said a total of 11 people had been killed and 50 wounded by Israeli fire and airstrikes in Gaza over the past 24 hours.“We transported three martyrs, including a child, following an Israeli airstrike targeting a camp for displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis,” Bassal told AFP.Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis confirmed the three deaths.“Their bodies were torn apart by direct hits from shrapnel from the Israeli missile,” the hospital said, adding that several wounded people, including a child and a woman, had also come in for treatment.The hospital identified the deceased as Hossam Al-Zamli, Tamer Abu Sneima, and Jouri Al-Soufi, a young girl. The Gaza education ministry gave her age as seven.A security source in Gaza told AFP that “several tanks and military vehicles, accompanied by a military bulldozer, advanced on Monday morning into the area west of the Yellow Line in the eastern part of Deir Al-Balah,” in central Gaza.The military advance on Monday coincided with “heavy gunfire by the occupation forces toward the eastern and northern areas” of Deir Al-Balah, home to hundreds of displaced families, the source added.Three security guards were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Islamic University campus on Sunday, the second attack that targeted the institution in the space of a few hours.In an earlier drone strike on the campus, seven female students were injured by flying shrapnel.The Popular Resistance Committees in Palestine condemned the university attacks, calling on mediators and international guarantors to step in to stop Israeli violations.Separately, in southern Gaza, the Nasser Medical Complex reported that two people were killed as a result of Israeli shelling in al-Mawasi in Khan Younis. Several people were also wounded, including a child.A person was also killed in an Israeli drone strike east of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, and another person was killed, and several others wounded, in an attack on al-Rashid Street, near Hamad Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.Later on Sunday, another man was killed and several others injured in an Israeli attack targeting the Sheikh Nasser neighbourhood, east of Khan Younis.Since the ceasefire began last year, more than 1,500 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the territory’s health ministry.
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