17 martyrs in a massacre in Khan Yunis, and the occupation continues to strangle Gaza with systematic starvation.

Seventeen Palestinians, including three children, were killed early Saturday morning in an Israeli airstrike targeting the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, at a time when the occupation is systematically destroying food supplies in the Strip.

The occupation forces killed four Palestinians in a shelling of the Batn al-Sameen area in central Khan Yunis.

This brings the number of Palestinian martyrs to more than 50 as a result of the ongoing massacres perpetrated by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip since early Friday morning, as part of its ongoing war of genocide that has been ongoing for nearly 19 months.

The occupation forces killed several Palestinians in a shelling of the al-Harthani family home in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

Previously, three Palestinians were killed in a shelling targeting a civilian gathering in the al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

On Friday afternoon, an Israeli drone killed six Palestinians and wounded others, targeting a food distribution center in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood north of Gaza City, according to medical sources.

Previously, five Palestinians from the al-Masry family were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a mourning house in the town of Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.

At dawn on Friday, Israeli warplanes launched an airstrike on a home belonging to the Abu Zeina family in the al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing seven Palestinians from the same family, according to medical sources.