Israeli military planes bombed a house belonging to the Shehadeh family in the Brazil neighborhood of Rafah governorate, southern Gaza Strip.
Four people were killed in Thursday’s attack and dozens more injured. At least 15 people remain missing under the rubble.
The injured were transferred to Abu Youssef Al Najjar Hospital and the Kuwaiti Specialized Hospital in Rafah.
The house, which belonged to Abdullah Shehadeh, a doctor, housed dozens of displaced people.
Residents of the neighborhood, alongside civil protection teams, searched the rubble with simple tools and bare hands, to try to recover the bodies of those killed remaining under the rubble.
In two separate attacks on the homes of the Abu Dabaa and Ashour families in Rafah, the number of people killed by aerial bombardments rose to 25.
The attacks took place the same night, when communications networks were cut again by Israeli forces, the fifth time since October 7.
In a statement, the government media office in Gaza called the Israeli policy a “deliberate act.”
“The cutoff of communications and the Internet means that Palestinians will face life-threatening disasters, as there will be many dead and injured (in Israeli attacks) that no one will be able to reach,” the media office said. “So the number of victims killed will increase. »
More than 280 Palestinians and around 800 others were injured on Thursday, as air raids and artillery shelling continued across the Gaza Strip, particularly in the southern town of Khan Younis, northern Gaza and neighborhoods east of Gaza City.
Since the start of the Israeli offensive on the coastal territory, at least 18,797 people have been killed and more than 50,000 injured, according to Palestinian authorities. Some 7,780 Palestinians are still missing and presumed dead under the rubble of their homes.
More than 253,000 homes have been partially damaged by the ongoing bombing, and more than 52,000 homes have been completely demolished by Israeli air attacks or have become uninhabitable.
