Gaza health official Ashraf al-Kidra said five women, including one 80-year-old, and four small children were among the dead.
Nine
members of the one family died in this blast – all women and children, along
with two neighbours who were walking past the house when the missile hit also
died.
The
Israeli Defence Force confirmed it had targeted the house of a Hamas man,
believed to be Mohamed Dallu, who was not home at the time of the attack. His
four children died – Sara, 7, Jamal, 6, Yusef, 4, and Ibrahim, 2.
A
spokesman would not comment on the air strike or the high number of civilian
casualties, except to say the IDF was “looking into the reports”.
At
the Jabalya Camp in Gaza’s north, another family was also in mourning.
With
the air strikes intensifying, Salam Ibrahim had gathered his wife and two young
children close to him on Saturday night, all of them sleeping in the same bed
in their house in a tiny residential street.
Israel unleashed its massive air campaign on Wednesday, killing a leading militant of the Hamas Islamist group that controls Gaza and rejects Israel's existence.
Israel says it is trying to stop militants in the coastal enclave from launching rockets that have plagued its southern communities for years.
US President Barack Obama said it was "preferable" for the crisis to end without a "ramping up" of Israeli military activity,
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