FRESH STRIKES
Bassal told AFP that Israeli strikes killed at least 15 people on Saturday across Gaza.
He said the dead included a couple who were killed with their two young children in a pre-dawn strike on a house in the Amal quarter of Khan Yunis.
To the west of the city, at least five peopsle were killed by a drone strike on a crowd of people that had gathered to wait for aid trucks, he added.
At Nasser Hospital, tearful mourners gathered Saturday around white-shrouded bodies outside.
“Suddenly, a missile from an F-16 destroyed the entire house, and all of them were civilians – my sister, her husband and their children,” said Wissam Al-Madhoun.
“What did this child do to (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu?”
In a statement, the military said that over the past day the air force had struck more than 100 targets across the territory.
Israel resumed operations in Gaza on March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire.
Gaza’s health ministry said Saturday that at least 3,747 people had been killed in the territory since then, taking the war’s overall toll to 53,901, mostly civilians.
