Gaza City: Three senior Hamas commanders and four children were among 24 Palestinians killed in Gaza on Thursday as Israel stepped up air strikes on day 45 of the bloody conflict.
Aside from the 24 people killed in air strikes, rescue workers found the body of a child under the rubble who had been killed on Tuesday and a man died of his injuries sustained earlier in the conflict, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.
Their deaths raised the overall toll in Gaza to 2,075, with more than 10,310 wounded, he said. Of that, 58 have been killed since violence resumed following the collapse of a truce agreement on Tuesday afternoon.
The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades leaders among at least 10 people killed when Israeli missiles destroyed a four-storey home in Rafah.
