Medical sources and eyewitnesses reported that on Friday, Israeli forces bombed gatherings of civilians across northern and central Gaza. At least 42 Palestinians were killed in the strikes that day, including five in Khan Younis and Rafah. In Gaza City, Israeli drones and warplanes targeted crowded neighbourhoods, killing civilians in Al-Tuffah, Zeitoun, and Al-Rimal. Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent sheltering displaced people atop the outpatient clinic building at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. Arab & Muslim countries condemn Netanyahu’s Greater Israel commentThe latest escalation coincides with mounting regional outrage.