Gaza death toll is reported to rise

Gaza’s health ministry now reports that at least 54 people have died in Israeli strikes across the Strip Wednesday, including 16 killed when shells hit a UN school, sending the Palestinian toll from 23 days of fighting to more than 1,280.

The latest violence saw six members of the same family, three of them children, killed when an Israeli shell hit the Tuffah neighbourhood in northeastern Gaza City, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra says.

Israel says hundreds of those killed in Gaza have been Hamas fighters.

— AFP

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