Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli forces pounded the Palestinian territory, killing at least 12 people including three girls, 15 months into the conflict, AFP reports.

Three girls and their father were killed when an air strike hit their house in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the civil defence agency reported.

Local paramedic Mahmud Awad said he helped transfer the bodies of two girls and their father, Mahmud Abu Kharuf to a hospital.

“Their bodies were found under the rubble of the house that the occupation bombed in the Nuseirat camp,” Awad told AFP. He added that the body of the third girl had been found earlier by residents.

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