Gaza death toll said to top 1,300

Palestinian sources say at least 76 people die in Israeli strikes across Gaza Wednesday, sending the Palestinian toll from 23 days of fighting above 1,300.

In a strike on a house in the Tuffah neighborhood in northeastern Gaza City, seven members of the same family were killed, among them four children and a woman, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra says.

In the southern city of Khan Yunis, a single strike kills nine members of the same family, including a child, Qudra says, and in a later incident, seven members of another family also die as Israeli tank shelling struck the city.

Later in the day, medics pull the bodies of another seven people from the rubble of a house in Khan Yunis, also from the same family, and in another shelling attack in Gaza City, an 11-year-old disabled girl was killed, and a 16-year-old girl died in a strike on central Gaza, he says.

Israel says hundreds of those killed are Hamas fighters.

— AFP and Times of Israel staff