Nearly two dozen Palestinians, including eight children, have been killed and several more injured as in past 24 hours of Israeli air strikes targeting mainly the residential buildings in the besieged Gaza Strip.

At least 12 people, mainly displaced people, have lost their lives in a devastating massacre in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on day 213 of the regime’s genocidal war on Gaza.

The Israeli forces also killed nine Palestinians in as they bombed a house in east of Rafah. In the same city the Yabna refugee camp and al-Salam neighborhood came under Israeli forces’ bombings.

To the central part of the strip, numerous civilians were killed and others were wounded when the occupation forces bombed a residential apartment near the al-Samer junction in Gaza City.

Earlier yesterday, civil defense crews in Gaza had recovered five decomposed bodies of slain civilians from Al-Jaabari family, whose house was targeted near the Palestine Stadium in the city.

The total number of Palestinians killed in Israeli air and artillery shelling has risen to nearly 34,700 and the injured surpassing 78,000. Most of the victims are children and women.

Meanwhile, ambulance and rescue teams are still unable to reach many casualties and dead bodies trapped under the rubble or scattered on roads across the war-torn enclave, as Israeli occupation forces continue to obstruct the movement of and ambulance and civil defense teams.