News - Middle East: Israeli military forces have kept up deadly air strikes on residential areas in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 37 Palestinians over the past 24 hours, according to Gaza health officials.

The toll came from separate strikes on two refugee camps in the heart of the besieged populated territory, Nuseirat and Bureij camps, which have recently been the target of numerous deadly attacks by the regime’s forces. 

In Nuseirat refugee camp, at least 13 people were killed, according to hospital officials and Gaza’s Civil Defense said on Saturday.

The Civil Defense said a residential block was hit south of the camp.

"We recovered three martyrs and eight injuries from two inhabited apartments bombed by the occupation in the Niamat Allah Building in the Nuseirat Camp in the central Gaza Strip," said the Civil Defense.

Among the dead in the refugee camps were three children, according to Palestinian ambulance teams that transported the bodies to the nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

Palestinian journalist Mohammad Abu Jasser, his wife, and two children were also among those killed in Saturday’s airstrikes. An Israeli strike hit their house in the northern Gaza Strip, a medic said.

His death brought the number of Palestinian media personnel killed by Israeli forces to 161 since early October, Gaza’s Media Office said.

In Rafah, the southernmost city in Gaza, residents said Israeli tanks pushed deeper into northern areas and took control of a hilltop in the west.

Israel’s military also said in a statement that its forces are continuing “intelligence-based operational activity” in the town.

Israel has been under pressure from the international community to end its invasion of Rafah, which was the last refuge in the Gaza Strip for about 1.5 million displaced Palestinians before Israeli forces invaded the city.

In the tenth month of the war on the Gaza Strip, at least 38,919 people have been killed, according to the Gaza health ministry's latest figures.

The toll includes 71 deaths in 48 hours, according to ministry figures, which also list 89,622 people as having been wounded in the territory since October 7.

 Source: Press TV