The Civil Defense said three children and their mother were killed in an airstrike late Monday in the Tufah neighborhood of Gaza City. It said three other people were missing after the strike.

Another strike late Monday hit a building in downtown Gaza City, killing a child, three women and a man, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

In southern Gaza, a strike on a home early Tuesday killed five people, including a man, his three children as young as 3 years old and a woman, according to a casualty list provided by Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where the bodies were taken.

Another airstrike early Tuesday flattened a home west of Khan Younis, killing at least four people, including a child, according to Nasser Hospital, where the dead were taken. Footage shared online showed residents digging through the rubble. A man carried a wounded child to an ambulance, while two others carried a dead body wrapped in a blanket.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israel’s assault has killed at least 40,000 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded more than 93,000 others, mostly women and children.

Israel's relentless bombardment has displaced most of Gaza's 2.3 million residents and reduced the territory to rubble, while an Israeli siege has pushed hundreds of thousands to the brink of starvation.

*This story was edited by Ahram Online.