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Sixteen Palestinians were martyred in an "Israeli" airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip early Saturday, bringing the toll on the fifth day of aggression to 121, medics said.

The latest strike marytyred three in the eastern Tufah neighborhood of Gaza City, Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.

The raid came shortly after two people were martyred in a strike that hit a charitable association for the disabled in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, and another three people died in an attack in western Gaza City.

Earlier, Qudra announced the martyrdom of eight other Palestinians, including a man who died of wounds sustained in an earlier strike, five people were martyred in Gaza's northern Jebaliya, and two further south in Deir al-Balah.

Local officials said the morning's raids hit targets that included mosques and homes of Hamas officials, throughout the coastal enclave.
The latest fatalities raise the martyrs' toll to 121 since "Israel" began its brutal aggression early Tuesday against the strip.
Four-year-old Saher Abu Namous became one of the victims when an "Israeli" missile slammed into her home in northern Gaza.

Moreover, the body of 54-year-old Abdel Halim Ashra, martyred in an airstrike on Wednesday in the area of Birka Der al-Yellih, was discovered Friday.

Sixty-five-year-old Mohammed Rabih Abu Humeidan was also martyred in shelling in northern Gaza, while two others were killed in an air strike on a car belonging to the municipality of Gaza. The strike critically wounded a third person.

An air strike on a house in Gaza City martyred a man described by officials as a doctor and pharmacist. Medics and residents said an "Israeli" aircraft bombed a three-story house in the southern town of Rafah, martyring five members of the same family, including seven-year-old Ghalia al-Ghanam.

Meanwhile, the resistance's rockets continued to shell the Zionsit entity.
An "Israeli" soldier was severely wounded in a mortar shell late Thursday, and another settler was very seriously injured when a rocket hit a gas station in the southern port city of Ashdod early Friday.

Two soldiers were also wounded along the border with Gaza when Palestinians fired an anti-tank missile.
"Israel" has authorized the call-up of 40,000 reservist troops, and threatened a ground operation to stamp out the rocket fire.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team