Palestinian rescuers and relatives said the people killed in the Shati refugee camp were family members.

Gaza City – After the relentless bombing of the besieged enclave on the fifth night, at least 10 Palestinians, including 8 children, were killed by Israeli airstrikes on houses in the Shati refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, rescuers were excavating the ruins of a family house in Abu Hatab, where it is believed that more people were buried.

At least 15 people were injured in the airstrike, including a baby named Omar.

Nabil Abu Al Reesh, a survivor doctor at Shifa Hospital, said that responders are “still working to recover more bodies and figure out who is who”.

He told Al Jazeera: “This is indeed a massacre, beyond description.”

A man who claimed to be the cousin of the house owner told Al Jazeera that the attack occurred “without any warning.”

“We ran outside; we saw this four-story house was completely demolished. It was completely razed to the ground,” he said.

He added that the homeowner’s sister and children were visiting at the time of the attack.

He said: “They are all killed.” “They are all.”

The boy injured in the attack told the hospital’s Al Jazeera TV station, “The missile was hit and the window was broken.”

“It hit us in the head. We were injured,” he said. “We started running barefoot and my sister left all the belongings behind.”

An injured Palestinian boy sits on a bed in Shifa Hospital [Mahmud Hams/AFP]

according to Shati is the United Nations Palestine Refugee Agency. It is the third largest of the eight refugee camps in the Gaza Strip and one of the most crowded. There are more than 85,000 refugees here, all of whom live in an area of ??only 0.52 square kilometers.

Other locations in Gaza that were hit by Israeli missiles on Saturday included banks and the Ministry of the Interior. According to reports, another air strike hit a house in Khan Younis.

In response to the latest attack on the Shati refugee camp, the Hamas group that governs the Gaza Strip fired a series of rockets at the southern Israeli towns of Askelon and Ashdod. There were no reports of casualties.

The Israeli bombing of Gaza has killed at least 139 Palestinians in the days since protests against the deportation of Palestinian families from Israel on Monday, the deportation of Sheikh Jarrah residents and subsequent Israeli repression and attacks. , Including 40 children, and caused more than 920 injuries. In the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, Hamas began firing rockets at Israel.

Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system intercepted many rockets, which killed 9 people in Israel, including at least one child.

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces Be killed At least 13 Palestinians protested against Israel’s continued occupation and Gaza bombing, while violence between Israeli Palestinian citizens and Israeli Jews continued to escalate.