The director of Al-Wafa Hospital and Home for Elderly Care in Gaza City was killed in an Israeli airstrike Friday night, reported the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa.

Local sources said that Israeli warplanes targeted the hospital, which resulted in the killing of its director Midhad Mhaisen.

Several doctors were also injured in the strike.

Wafa reported that Israeli warplanes launched a series of violent airstrikes against various areas in the northern besieged Gaza Strip.

Local sources said that the shelling targeted several areas in the Jabalia refugee camp, civilian homes in Beit Lahia, the vicinity of residential towers in Gaza's Sheikh Zayed City, and the vicinity of the Indonesian hospital.

The Israeli army's onslaught on the Gaza Strip entered day 43 Saturday, with the latest figures indicating that more than 12,000 Palestinians have been killed, including over 8,300 women and children.

Additionally, more than 30,000 others have been injured.

- Bernama-Wafa

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