22 Palestinians, including a couple and their four kids, killed in Gaza airstrikes

Gaza rescue teams and medics said Israeli air strikes killed at least 22 people on Thursday, including a family of six whose home was struck in Gaza City.

Israel resumed its military offensive in the Gaza Strip on March 18, following the collapse of a two-month ceasefire that had brought a temporary halt to hostilities in the blockaded Palestinian territory.

According to Gaza's civil defence agency and medical workers, Israeli bombardment killed at least 22 people in the devastated territory.

Six members of one family – a couple and their four children – were killed when an air strike levelled their home in northern Gaza City, the civil defence said in a statement.

Nine people were killed and several wounded in another strike on a former police station in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza, according to a statement from the Indonesian hospital where the casualties were brought.

Elsewhere, five people died when the tents they had sought refuge in were hit.

Another two people were killed in a strike on a home in the southern city of Khan Yunis.

Since Israel resumed its military operations, at least 1,928 people have been killed in Gaza, raising the total death toll to at least 51,305 since the war began, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.

The war was ignited by a Hamas-led attack on Israel in 2023, which resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.

Agence France-Presse