First responders and residents are searching for the injured while other bodies are believed to be under the rubble.
At least 90 people were killed and more than 100 injured in the latest Israeli attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
The enclave’s Health Ministry said Sunday’s strikes hit a residential building belonging to the al-Barsh and Alwan families in the town of Jabalia, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.
Women and children were among the dead, and dozens more remain missing, Wafa said in its report.
First responders and residents were searching for the injured and more bodies were likely under the rubble.
Many injured people, including children, were transported to nearby medical centers, already overwhelmed with patients.
The son of Dawoud Shehab, a spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, was among the dead, a group official told the Reuters news agency.
“We believe the number of deaths under the rubble is enormous but there is no way to remove the rubble and recover it due to the intensity of Israeli fire,” he said by telephone.
Doctors in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza said at least 12 Palestinians were killed and dozens more injured, while in Rafah in the south an Israeli air attack on a house left at least four dead.
Around 19,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7. Israel says 1,147 people were killed on its territory that day.
Meanwhile, Israel has also intensified its artillery bombardment in southern Gaza, hitting the towns of Khan Younis and Rafah, where the majority of displaced Palestinians are sheltering.
Intensified bombing in the south has worsened the humanitarian situation, with hungry people rushing to find food and water, scooping it up in desperation from aid trucks.
Israel announced Sunday that it would reopen the Karem Abu Salem crossing in the east, but it is unclear whether supplies have yet passed through.
The United Nations estimates that 1.9 million people – around 80 percent of Gaza’s population – have been displaced by the war.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if people started dying of starvation, or a combination of hunger, disease and low immunity,” said Philippe Lazzarini, director of the United Nations refugee agency. Palestinians, UNRWA.
