Mourners recite a prayer over the body of a victim killed in an Israeli strike that hit a cooking gas distribution point on Salah al-Din road near the Nusseirat refugee camp, in the courtyard of the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. AFP
The dead were members of local committees that help secure aid convoys, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies.
An Associated Press reporter at the hospital confirmed the toll.
Earlier on Thursday, an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza killed at least 11 people, including three children and two senior officers in Gaza police.
Israel has repeatedly targeted the police, contributing to a breakdown of law and order in the territory that has made it difficult for humanitarian groups to deliver aid.
Ongoing massacres
38 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since Thursday dawn, with 20 casualties in the central and southern parts, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
The death toll from an airstrike on Jabalia town in the northern Gaza Strip has risen to 10 people, according to Al Jazeera.
Since October 5, northern Gaza has been under relentless Israeli aggression, which killed around 4,000 Palestinians and displaced tens of thousands.
In Gaza City, Israeli bombardment killed 20 people within just two hours. The airstrikes targeted various areas, including the Shati refugee camp in the west and neighbourhoods such as Rimal and Shejaiya.
Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defense, stated that Israeli occupation forces are preventing civil defence teams from performing their duties and are threatening them with death.
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Basal revealed that Israeli forces have arrested members of the civil defence, while others continue their rescue efforts despite the challenges they face.
Meanwhile, Marwan Al-Hammas, Director of Field Hospitals at Gaza's Ministry of Health, reported that 8 individuals, including 7 infants, have died due to severe cold.
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