Photo provided by UNRWA, shows fire and smoke billowing at the site of an Israeli airstrike around tents for displaced people inside the walls of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, early on October 14, 2024. (Via AFP)

Rafah, October 16 (RHC)-- At least 10 people from one family have been killed with many others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the southern Gaza Strip.  Reports said on Tuesday that 10 members of the Abu Tuaima family lost their lives in the Israeli attack on their home in Bani Suhaila, east of the city of Khan Yunis.

The air raid took place at the time when the victims were sleeping, the reports added, noting that casualties were transferred to the Nasser hospital.

Meanwhile, the death toll from Israeli airstrikes across Gaza since early Tuesday has risen to at least 45.

At least 14 Gazans were killed in twin Israeli air raids in east of Khan Younis, and in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.  Three others lost their lives in the Israeli bombardment of a house near Salah al-Din Mosque in the Zeitoun neighborhood south of Gaza City.

Six other Palestinians were also killed in Israeli attacks on the southern Gaza town of al-Faukhari near Khan Yunis.

Israel unleashed a genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, after the Hamas resistance group carried out its historic operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

The Tel Aviv regime has so far killed at least 42,289 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 98,68 others, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

In a violation of international law, Israel has been deliberately targeting tents, as well as schools and hospitals, used as shelters by displaced Palestinians.

The Israeli regime bombs a refugee camp in central Gaza, triggering a huge fire that consumed the displaced Palestinians there alive.

On Tuesday, the United Nations children's agency, UNICEF, called for an immediate end to the “shameful violence" perpetrated by Israel against Gaza children as the occupying regime keeps bombing shelters in the blockaded territory.

“Today, our screens were once again filled with horrifying reports of children killed, burnt, and families emerging from the bombed tents in Gaza. These should shock the world to its core,” UNICEF wrote in a post on X.   Attacks on shelters prove again that there is "no safe place for children in Gaza," it added.

[ SOURCE:  AFP, NEWS AGENCIES ]