GAZA - At least 41 Palestinians were killed Saturday by Israeli gunfire and airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, according to local hospitals and civil defense.

Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp reported in a press statement that eight people were killed and dozens of others injured while waiting for humanitarian aid near the Netzarim Corridor.

Five people were killed near an aid distribution center west of Rafah, a city in the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip, and were transferred to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, according to a statement issued by the hospital.

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In addition to the 13 deaths reported by hospitals, Gaza's Civil Defense reported at least 28 others killed in ongoing Israeli airstrikes across Gaza.

In a brief statement, the Civil Defense said that Israeli airstrikes began in the morning, targeting residential homes, tents housing displaced people, and gatherings in the neighborhoods of al-Tuffah and al-Shuja'iyya east of Gaza City, as well as in Khan Younis and Jabalia.

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There was no immediate comment from the Israeli side on these attacks.

Since Israel resumed its military campaign in Gaza on March 18 after a two-month truce in its conflict against Hamas, at least 5,599 Palestinians have been killed and 19,097 others injured, bringing the overall death toll in Gaza since the war began in October 2023 to 55,908, with 131,138 others injured, Gaza-based health authorities said on Saturday.