Key points
- A Palestinian family of four died in a pre-dawn strike in Khan Yunis
- Two more Palestinian deaths reported in the Nuseirat refugee camp
- Israel resumed military operations on March 18 after a two-month ceasefire
- Since then, 3,673 killed in Gaza, bringing the total death toll to 53,822, mostly civilians
GAZA CITY, Palestine: Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least six Palestinians on Saturday across the Palestinian territory, where Israel has ramped up its military offensive in recent days.
“Our teams have recovered at least six dead,” civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.
He said a couple were killed with their two young children in a pre-dawn strike on a house in the Amal quarter of the southern city of Khan Yunis.
Another two Palestinians were killed in a strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the territory, he said.
The Israeli military said it was unable to comment on individual strikes without their “precise geographical coordinates”.
Israel resumed operations in Gaza on March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire.
Over 53,000 Palestinians killed
Gaza’s health ministry said Friday that at least 3,673 people had been killed in the territory since then, taking the war’s overall toll to 53,822, mostly civilians.
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said on Friday that Palestinians were enduring “the cruellest phase” of the war in Gaza.
The World Food Programme called on Israel “to get far greater volumes of food assistance into Gaza faster”, saying: “Hunger, desperation, and anxiety over whether more food aid is coming, is contributing to rising insecurity.”
Aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip restarted on Monday for the first time since March 2, amid mounting condemnation of the Israeli blockade, which has resulted in severe shortages of food and medicines.
