The shrouded bodies of members of the Ahmed family, who were killed when an Israeli strike hit their home, arrive at Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip. AFP
Israel resumed airstrikes on Gaza on 18 March, ending a nearly two-month truce that had brought relative calm to the territory, which has been enduring Israel's genocidal war since October 2023.
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 Younis 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 el-Balah, the agency said.
"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.
Gaza’s health ministry said on Thursday that at least 2,326 people have been killed since Israel resumed strikes on 18 March, bringing the total death toll since the war began on 7 October 2023 to 52,418—most of them women and children—with at least 118,091 others wounded.
Days before resuming its genocidal assault, Israel blocked all aid entering Gaza, and UN rights chief Volker Turk said the territory was witnessing a "humanitarian catastrophe".
"Israel appears to be inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life increasingly incompatible with their continued existence as a group in Gaza," he said this week.
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