Israeli forces continue to bombard areas across Gaza, killing at least 41 people across Gaza since dawn on Saturday, including 27 people in the north of the strip, according to Gaza’s civil defense.
 

Gaza City, January 5 (RHC)-- Israeli forces continue to bombard areas across Gaza, killing at least 41 people across Gaza since dawn on Saturday, including 27 people in the north of the strip, according to Gaza’s civil defence.

An Israeli air attack on a house on Saturday, killed eleven family members including seven children in northern Gaza City.  “The home, which housed several displaced people, was completely destroyed,” said civil defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal.

“It was a two-storey building and several people are still under the rubble,” he added, saying Israeli drones “also fired on ambulance staff” who tried to treat the wounded.

Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud also reported that at least five people were killed early on Saturday in an Israeli drone attack on a convoy of security personnel hired to protect the delivery of commercial and humanitarian trucks.

The civil defence also reported that a husband, wife and their son were killed in an Israeli attack on a home on al-Sahaba Street, Gaza City.

Several people were also injured after Israeli fighter jets bombed tents housing displaced Palestinians in the vicinity of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, Al Jazeera Arabic reported.

Separately on Saturday, the Israeli army said a rocket was identified after being fired from northern Gaza towards Israel.  The army said that the rocket fell into the area of the Beit Hanoon crossing, known as Erez to Israelis, one of several crossings between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 45,658 Palestinians and wounded 108,583 since October 7, 2023.  At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and about 250 others were taken captive.