Gaza’s civil defence agency has said that Israeli strikes have killed multiple members of the two families across the enclave, AFP reports.
In southern Gaza, civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that five members of the same family were killed and several others wounded in an Israeli air strike that hit a tent housing displaced people in the coastal Al-Mawasi area.
AFP images from the nearby Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis city, showed medics treating young children covered in blood. Some appeared terrified while others lay still on hospital beds in bloodied bandages and clothes.
Further north, Bassal said that four people from the same family were killed in a pre-dawn Israeli air strike on a house in Gaza City, and another five in a drone strike on a house in the central Deir el-Balah area.
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military requested precise coordinates for the targeted locations and said it “will try to look into” the reports.