At least 67 people were killed and 106 injured in overnight Israeli attacks on Gaza, the Ministry of Health in the enclave said Monday.
In Gaza City, at least 21 people were killed, and dozens of others injured after Israeli strikes on a residential neighborhood, the head of the Emergency Department at the Shifa Medical Complex, Amjad Alaiwa told CNN.
In Rafah, at least three people were killed after an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Jeneina neighborhood, east of the city, journalist Ahmad Hijazi told CNN.
The strike took place at 3:30 a.m. local time when people had been gathered in the neighborhood for suhoor, the pre-dawn meal Muslims eat during Ramadan, Hijazi said.
Three women from the Al Barakat family were buried at 6:30 a.m., Hijazi said.
In a video shared by photographer Mahmoud Bassam, the building reportedly housing the Al Barakat family can be seen ablaze.
The Israel Defense Forces said Monday it had been operating on the ground and with airstrikes in central Gaza, with special forces in the Hamad area of southern Gaza, and with aerial forces, sniper fire and tanks in the Al-Qarara area of Khan Younis.
In each area, the IDF claimed that the people it killed were terrorists.
Journalist Khader Al-Za’anoun of Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency, contributed to this report.