12 Gazans killed in Israeli strikes
The overall Palestinian death toll in Gaza has surpassed 50,600, according to health officials, with women and children accounting for the majority of casualties. PHOTO: REUTERS
Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed at least 12 people, including young children, mostly in the south of the besieged Palestinian territory.
Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that Israeli fighter jets hit three tents overnight where dozens of displaced people were sheltering in the southern city of Khan Yunis.
"Eight people, including four children aged two to five and two women" were killed, Bassal said. AFP footage showed rescuers working in the dark, evacuating a wounded baby from the site of the strike as well as two bodies, one of them in a white plastic bag and another wrapped in a blanket.
A separate strike on Khan Yunis later on Sunday killed three people, Bassal said.
One person was killed and three others wounded when a group of civilians came under attack in Gaza City, in the north, he added.