49 more Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes over 24 hours in Gaza

At least 49 people were killed by Israeli strikes in the last 24 hours, according to health officials on Saturday.

An airstrike in a neighbourhood in western Gaza City early on Saturday morning, flattened a three-storey house, killing 10 people — half of them children.

The number was confirmed by Gaza’s Health Ministry, along with three more people who were killed in the Shati refugee camp along the city's shoreline.

The dead in the early morning airstrike in a neighbourhood in western Gaza City included three women and five children, according to Shifa Hospital, which received the bodies.

People surround the bodies of the Al Khour family in the yard of Al Shifa Hospital. AFP

"There is no one from the resistance among them," said Saed Al Khour, who lost his family in the strike. "Since 1 o'clock until now we have been pulling out the remains of children, women and elderly people."

He stood amid the rubble, under a tilted ceiling. Three other people were killed in the Shati refugee camp along Gaza City's shoreline.

The attacks come as Hamas said on Saturday that it sent a high-level delegation to Cairo to try and get the stalled ceasefire back on track.

Agencies