Gaza death toll said to top 500

A family of nine Palestinians, including seven children, were killed overnight by an Israeli airstrike on their home in Gaza, says emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra.

Gaza medics say the bodies of 16 Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the south of the Gaza Strip are also found Monday, pushing the Palestinian death toll to 501.

Emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra says they were killed in a strike on Sunday in southern Khan Yunis.

—AFP

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