At least 17 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in northern Gaza, Al Jazeera Arabic reports.

According to AJ Arabic, this includes at least six people who have been killed in Israeli artillery shelling targeting a group of people near the Abu Sharkh roundabout west of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

Six more people have been reported killed in an Israeli air strike on a residential house in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza. The Palestinian Information Centre reported that the al-Asi family home was targeted there overnight, reports Al Jazeera.

According to witnesses cited by the news outlet, a number of family members were alive under the rubble, but later died due to the lack of first aid and they died of suffocation.

Palestinian media outlets also reported that at least five bodies were received by Jabalia’s al-Awda Hospital from the Tall az-Zaatar area, bringing the total to at least 17 deaths.