15 people from one family were killed by Israeli bombing in Gaza

The Gaza Civil Defence announced on Saturday that 15 people from one Palestinian family were killed in an Israeli air strike early Saturday in the central Gaza Strip, including nine children and three women.

Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal told Agence France-Presse that the bombing targeted a house for the Al-Ajla family in the Al-Zawaida neighbourhood in central Gaza.

Eyewitness Ahmed Abu Al-Ghoul said, "At about one o'clock in the morning, they suddenly struck three missiles... directly at the house. They were all children and women," according to Agence France-Presse.

The Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) reported that dozens were injured as a result of the Israeli bombing, and they were transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Deir Al-Balah.

The Israeli army has not yet made any comment.

So far, the death toll as a result of Israeli bombing and raids has reached about 28 people.

An Israeli raid targeted a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of 6 Palestinians, including two children.

According to a Sky News Arabia correspondent in the Gaza Strip, the death toll as a result of Israeli raids and bombings on the Strip has risen to 22, including 16 killed in a raid on a warehouse for displaced people in Al-Zawaida in the centre of the Strip.

Three were also killed in raids on a house in Khan Yunis, a body was recovered from Rafah, and two from a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, north of Gaza City.