Grenades covered the sky: Sixteen dead in the Gaza Strip

An attack early this morning destroyed a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least 10 people, including four women and two children.

Avda Hospital, which received the bodies, confirmed the number of victims and announced that 13 more people were wounded. Hospital records show that the dead included a mother, her child and five siblings.

Another attack on a house in Gaza City killed six people, including a woman and two children, according to Civil Defense, which works for the Hamas-led government.

Israel says it only targets militants and accuses Hamas and other armed groups of endangering civilians by operating in residential areas.

Israel's military rarely comments on individual strikes, which often kill women and children.

Gaza's health ministry says more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed since the first attack by Hamas on October 7 last year, when the war began.

They do not distinguish between combatants and civilians, but state that slightly more than half of those killed were women and children.

Israel has said it has killed more than 17,000 militants, but has not provided evidence for that claim.