GAZA/RAMALLAH - At least 46 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Friday, the Civil Defense said.

Mahmoud Basal, a spokesperson for the Civil Defense Authority, told Xinhua seven people were killed in an airstrike that targeted a tent housing displaced persons in the Al-Rimal neighborhood in western Gaza City.

He said that six others, including two children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a school housing displaced people in the al-Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

At least 24 people, including a woman and two children, were killed by Israeli army while waiting to receive food in front of aid distribution centers north of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, at the Netzarim junction in the center of the Strip, and the Zikim crossing in the north, according to Basal.

He added that four people, including a girl, were killed in Israeli shelling that targeted Palestinian gatherings and a residential house in the Zeitoun and Tuffah neighborhoods in eastern Gaza City.

Two were killed in an airstrike on a tent housing displaced persons on the roof of the outpatient clinic building at al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Basal noted.

Three Palestinians, including an infant, were also killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a tent housing displaced persons west of Gaza City, according to Basal.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in statements on Friday that IDF troops, in coordination with the Air Forces, continue operational activity against the "terrorist organizations" throughout the Gaza Strip, including Gaza City and Khan Younis.

Also on Friday, Israeli settlers attacked several areas in the West Bank, causing injuries and damage, according to Palestinian sources and local residents.

In the east of Ramallah, two young men were injured by live bullets in a settler attack, according to activist Ayed Ghafri.

He said that one of the men was injured in the chest and the other in the hand. Ghafri described their condition as moderate and said they were transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.

Activist Osama Makhamreh told Xinhua that settlers attacked Bedouin homes in the village of Susya in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, and assaulted a man and his wife, causing head and hand injuries. They were subsequently transferred to the hospital.

The Palestine Liberation Organization's Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission reported in a statement that settlers burned four vehicles and parts of a house in the town of Atara, northwest of Ramallah.

The commission said that settlers attacked the eastern area of Atara, setting fire to four vehicles, and threw Molotov cocktails at a house, causing material damage. They also spray-painted "racist" graffiti on the walls. Fire engines rushed to extinguish the blaze.

In a separate incident, settlers cut down olive trees in the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, according to the commission.

Head of the Duma village council Suleiman Dawabsheh told Xinhua that settlers also uprooted several olive and grape trees from the lands of the village.

There was no official Israeli comment on these developments.

In a statement, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned "the settlers' terrorism and escalating crimes against Palestinians, their land, homes, vehicles, trees, and livelihoods."

The ministry held the Israeli government directly responsible for these "crimes, which are being perpetrated under the protection of the occupation army and with the constant incitement of government ministers."

For his part, Palestinian National Council Speaker Rawhi Fattouh said in a statement that the escalating settler attacks were "not isolated incidents, but rather part of an escalating pattern of systematic crimes targeting Palestinian communities and villages in the West Bank with the aim of emptying the land of its original owners."

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Separately, the IDF said in a statement that seven countries carried out an airdrop of 127 aid packages across the Gaza Strip on Friday.

According to the statement, Singapore joined the air operation for the first time, alongside the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Germany, Belgium, France, and Italy.

Since Israel allowed airdrop campaign to resume in late July amid international pressure, 12 countries have participated, delivering around 1,700 aid packages into Gaza.

However, UN agencies have termed the airdrops as expensive and inefficient, urging Israel to allow aid into Gaza by land.

Meanwhile, Palestine's official news agency, WAFA, reported Friday that six Palestinians were killed as an Israeli assault targeted aid seekers northwest of the Gaza Strip.

Since Israel resumed its intensified military campaign on March 18, at least 10,300 Palestinians have been killed and 43,234 injured, bringing the overall death toll in Gaza since the war began in October 2023 to 61,827, with a total of 155,275 people injured, according to health authorities in Gaza on Friday.