The family – three children and their parents – were killed when an Israeli strike hit a residential apartment in northwest Gaza City, according to the territory’s civil defence agency.

“The family’s only surviving member is one child, who was not inside the house at the time of the strike,” Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for the agency, told the AFP news agency.

Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital confirmed it had received the five bodies.

At least 1,150 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the US-brokered “ceasefire” between the Zionist regime and Hamas took effect last October, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

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