Twenty-one Palestinians were killed and several others injured Sunday as a result of Israeli gunfire and shelling targeting people waiting for food aid as well as homes and tents of displaced people in various areas of the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that 10 Palestinians were killed in Israeli shelling targeting groups of citizens in the Shujaiya neighbourhood east of Gaza City. A number of unspecified casualties were also reported when Israeli aircraft targeted a group of citizens on Mushtaha Street in the same neighbourhood.

Al Shifa Hospital said in a statement that two citizens and several others were injured after Israeli forces continued bombing and opening fire at people seeking aid in the Zikim area, northwest of the Gaza Strip, since this morning.

In a related development, two citizens were reported injured and missing under the rubble after Israeli aircraft targeted a house in Jabalia Al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip.

In the central Gaza Strip, Al-Awda Hospital announced that three citizens were killed and several others injured when the Israeli occupation forces targeted a gathering of civilians near the aid distribution point on Salah al-Din Street, south of the Wadi Gaza area.

The hospital also reported that two other citizens, including a child, were killed in an Israeli shelling east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

In the southern Gaza Strip, four citizens from the same family were killed as a result of an Israeli shelling that targeted a tent in the Al Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis. Other injuries occurred as a result of another Israeli shelling of a tent near the Tiberias area west of the city.

The death toll from the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, since Oct 7, 2023, has risen to 61,430, with 153,213 wounded.

Since March 18, the casualty toll Sunday reached 9,921 martyrs and 41,172 wounded, the ministry said, stating that over the past 24 hours hospitals across Gaza received 35 martyrs and 304 wounded from those who were waiting for aid, bringing the total number of aid seekers who were killed to 1,778 and 12,894-plus injured people, the ministry added.