The Red Crescent said three people were killed and others were injured when an Israeli drone targeted a group of civilians in the town of Beit Lahia.

According to medical sources, 12 civilians were killed in the Israeli artillery shelling of displaced people at the Abu Al-Jidyan junction in the Beit Lahia project.

Israel continues its siege of the northern Gaza Strip, destroying and bombing homes, preventing the entry of food supplies for the 18th consecutive day, and forcing citizens to move, as more than 10,000 citizens in the Beit Lahia project refuse to move to the south.

Local health authorities confirmed that the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli onslaught since 7 October has risen to 42,603 reported fatalities, with 99,759 others sustaining injuries. The majority of the victims were women and children.

According to the same sources, emergency services are still unable to reach many casualties and dead bodies trapped under the rubble or scattered on roads across the war-torn territory, as Israeli occupation forces continue to obstruct the movement of ambulance and civil defence crews.

The entirety of northern Gaza is under Israeli evacuation orders to flee south, even though there is nowhere safe for people to flee bombardments.

The Israeli army launched an intense assault in northern Gaza on 6 October, claiming it was trying to stop Hamas fighters from regrouping.

However, many civilians have been killed in the attacks, with residents saying Israeli forces besieged hospitals and shelters of displaced people and targeted residential areas.