The Gaza Civil Defense Agency said Israeli strikes on Monday killed at least 40 people across the Palestinian territory, where aid has been blocked for more than 50 days.
Israel resumed its military campaign in the Gaza Strip on March 18. A ceasefire agreement that had largely halted fighting for two months collapsed due to disagreements between Israel and the Palestinian group designated a terrorist organization by the US and EU, Hamas, whose attack triggered the war in 2023.
Civil defense official Mohammed al-Mughayyir told AFP that 40 people had been killed since dawn on Monday.
Among them were eight people who were killed in an Israeli attack on the Abu Mahadi family home in Jabalia, in the north of the territory.
"They were sleeping in their homes, feeling safe, when the rockets hit... this scene makes you tremble," said Abdul Majeed Abu Mahadi, 67, who added that his brother was killed in the attack.
"If a person were to look at this scene, see children, women and old men torn apart, it hurts your heart, but what can we do?" he added.
The Civil Defense Agency reported that ten more people were killed in an Israeli attack on the Al-Ghamari family home in the Al-Sudaniya area, northwest of Gaza City.
An attack on the Al-Agha family home killed eight other people in an area of Khan Yunis in the south, she added.
Fourteen others were killed in four separate attacks across the territory, the civil defense said, including one that hit a tent housing displaced people in the Al-Shafii camp, west of Khan Yunis.
There has been no comment from the Israeli military regarding these attacks.
The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Monday that at least 2,222 people have been killed since Israel resumed attacks, bringing the total death toll since the outbreak of the war to 52,314.
Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.
The militants also kidnapped 251 people, 58 of whom are still being held in Gaza, including 34 who the Israeli military says are dead.
Israel says its new military campaign aims to force Hamas to release the remaining hostages. (A2 Televizion)
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