Two Palestinians, including a journalist, were killed and several others injured as Israeli airstrikes targeted northern Gaza and the southern city of Rafah, Wafa reports.

Local sources reported that writer and journalist Mohammad Hijazi was killed in the strikes on northern Gaza. Civil defense teams later recovered the body of another victim in the Musabah area, north of Rafah, following heavy Israeli bombardment.

Israeli warplanes also bombed an area near the bike market in the Qizan Rashwan region, south of Khan Younis, coinciding with intense shelling across various parts of the province.

Thousands of victims are feared trapped under rubble, inaccessible to emergency and civil defense teams due to Israeli attacks.