At least 15 Palestinians, including six children, have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli strike on the town of Zawayda in central Gaza, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Saturday.
All of the 15 people killed are from the same family, including nine children and three women.
The Israeli strike targeted a warehouse where the displaced Ajlah family were sheltering. The warehouse was struck by at least three Israeli missiles, causing widespread destruction.
A fire broke out, burning everything in the warehouse as children were torn to pieces, Al Jazeera reported. Rescue efforts to recover more bodies are ongoing.
Also on Saturday, Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon killed ten people.
The toll from the strike in the Nabatieh area is one of the largest in southern Lebanon since Hezbollah and Israeli forces began exchanging near-daily fire over their border after Tel Aviv’s war on the Gaza Strip began.
International mediators have been trying to reach a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, which diplomats say could help to avert a wider war in which Lebanon would be on the front line.
The death toll from the latest strike included “a woman and her two children” and five other people were wounded, two critically, Lebanon’s health ministry said in a statement.
