Israeli strikes kill at least 29 more Palestinians in Gaza

Gaza's civil defence agency said on Thursday Israeli bombardment killed at least 29 people since midnight in the war-ravaged territory, which has been under Israeli aid blockade for nearly two months.

Civil defence official Mohammed Al Mughayyir said Thursday's toll included eight people killed in an air strike on the Abu Sahlul family home in Khan Yunis refugee camp in southern Gaza. Four people were killed in an air strike east of Shaaf in Gaza City's Al Tuffah neighbourhood, he told AFP.

At least 17 more were killed in other attacks across the Palestinian territory, including one that hit a tent sheltering displaced people near the central city of Deir Al Balah, the agency said.

Mohammed Abed, center left, mourns his sister Massa Abed, 4, who was killed in an Israeli army airstrike, at the morgue of Al Aqsa Hospital. AP

"We came here and found all these houses destroyed, and children, women and young people all bombed to pieces," said Ahmed Abu Zarqa after a deadly strike in Khan Younis.

"This is no way to live. Enough, we're tired, enough! "We don't know what to do with our lives any more. We'd rather die than live this kind of life."

AFP images showed residents digging through rubble in search of bodies, which were carried away on stretchers under blankets.

At Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, rescuers rushed a screaming wounded child out of an ambulance.

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Thursday that at least 2,326 people have been killed since Israel resumed strikes, bringing the overall death toll since the war broke out to 52,418.

Agence France-Presse