Gaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike killed five people in the north of the war-ravaged Palestinian territory early this morning, AFP reports.

Several more were wounded in the strike “today at dawn on the home of the Abu Rayyan family in the town of Beit Lahiya”, north of Gaza City, the agency’s spokesperson Mahmoud Basal told AFP.

The Israeli military has yet to comment on the reported strike.

It followed an Israeli bombardment a day earlier that rescuers in Gaza said killed 59 people, most of them in Gaza City.

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