Israeli strikes overnight and into Tuesday morning killed more than 90 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including dozens of women and children, health officials said.
One of the attacks on the Shati refugee camp in the north killed a 68-year-old Hamas member who was part of the Palestinian legislature, as well as a husband and wife and their six children who were taking shelter in the same building, according to officials from Shifa Hospital, where the victims were taken.
Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by the United States and other powers.
One of the deadliest attacks hit a house in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City on Monday evening, killing 19 members of a family living there, according to Shifa Hospital. The victims include eight women and six children.
Another attack hit a tent housing displaced people in the same neighborhood, killing a man, woman, and their two children.
The Israeli military has not yet commented on these attacks.
The Gaza Health Ministry reported on Tuesday afternoon that the bodies of 93 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to Gaza hospitals over the past 24 hours, along with 278 wounded.
The Hamas politician killed in one of Tuesday morning's attacks, Mohammed Faraj al-Ghoul, was a member of the Hamas representative bloc that won seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council in the last Palestinian elections held in 2006.
Hamas won a majority in those elections, but relations with the main Fatah faction – which had long led the Palestinian Authority – deteriorated and ended with Hamas taking control of Gaza in 2007. The legislative council has not formally met since.
The Israeli military says it only targets militants and tries to avoid harming civilians. It blames Hamas for the civilian deaths because the militants operate in densely populated areas.
But the Israeli army strikes homes and shelters where people live every day, often without warning or explanation of the target.
The war in Gaza began after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing about 1.200 people and taking 251 others hostage.
Most of the hostages have been released during previous ceasefires.
Since then, Israel's war in Gaza has killed more than 58.000 Palestinians, over half of them women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry./REL
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