Women mourn their relatives who were killed by Israeli bombardment outside the Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. AFP
At least 11 people were killed in an air strike on a house in northern Gaza's Sheikh Radwan area early on Sunday, Palestinian Civil Defence Agency spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said, adding that the dead included women and children.
"Rescuers are still searching for five people trapped under the rubble of the house," Bassal told AFP.
"They are using their bare hands because we lack proper equipment."
The Israeli occupation forces are "directing violent airstrikes on homes where displaced people were sheltering, claiming they were targeting resistance fighters," he further explained.
In a separate strike, five people were killed when the house of the Abu Jarbou family was struck in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the civil defence said.
Local sources reported that Israeli occupation drones targeted the police station at the Asdaa recreational complex northwest of Khan Younis, south of the Palestinian territory, killing five civilians and injuring many others, WAFA News agency reported.
The same sources also said that the occupation forces targeted a group of civilians in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis, killing two people and wounding others.
Another strike killed four people in the town of Jabalia, in the north, as the Israeli army forges ahead with a three-month-old campaign of ethnic cleansing in the north of the strip.
Footage from Gaza's perimeter shows the city of Beit Hanoun facing complete destruction by the Israeli army. Families are being wiped out, with no clear account of the dead or survivors. A silent tragedy unfolds, unseen and unspoken. pic.twitter.com/F9gD0Due6S
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Mohammad Hijazi, a Palestinian writer, poet and journalist, was killed in an Israeli air strike in Jabalia refugee camp, according to his family, taking the total number of journalists killed in the Israeli war to 220.
Israeli warplanes also bombed Al-Masdar village in central Gaza, leaving several civilians injured.
In a separate incident, one person was killed, and others were wounded after Israeli airstrikes targeted a group of civilians near Al-Sayyed Ali Mosque in the Shujaiya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
Additionally, the Palestinian Health Ministry said on Sunday that Israel killed 88 people in the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll of the Israeli genocidal war to 45,805 (2.2 percent of Gaza's population), with the vast majority being children and women.
The ministry also said in a statement that at least 109,064 people had been wounded in nearly 15 months of the war.
Israel's crimes in Gaza are "on repeat," the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA said.
"I've had a woman scream at me in absolute despair and horror because her son was killed in the strike in the so-called humanitarian zone. Her daughter was lying on the bed next to us, paralyzed," Louise Wateridge, a Senior Emergency Officer at UNRWA, said.
Meanwhile, Gaza has seen the death of its eighth Palestinian infant since the start of winter due to the extreme cold, compounded by a dire lack of essential supplies and safe shelters amidst the ongoing Israeli genocide and blockade of humanitarian aid, according to Al Jazeera.
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