Israeli forces continued airstrikes and artillery attacks on the Gaza Strip overnight Sunday for the 14th day, killing two extended families in military attacks as the death toll tops 520.
Witnesses said that an Israeli airstrike leveled a house belonging to the Siyam family in Rafah. Emergency services pulled the bodies of 11 family members from the rubble, including an eight-month-old baby.
Nine of the the victims were identified as Sumud Nasser Siyam, 26, Muhammad Mahrous Salam Siyam, 25, Badir Nabil Mahrous Siyam, 25, Ahmad Ayman Mahrous Siyam, 17, Mustafa Nabil Mahrous Siyam, 12, Ghayda Nabil Mahrous Siyam, 8, Sherin Muhammad Salam Siyam, 32, Dalal Nabil Mahrous Siym, 8 months, and Kamal Mahrous Salamah Siyam, 27.
Civil defense forces are still working to find survivors under the wreckage.
In Khan Younis, 16 members of the Abu Jami family were killed by Israeli shelling.
Medics managed to pull 13 bodies from the rubble and identified the victims as Jawdat Tawfiq Ahmad Abu Jami, 24, Tawfiq Ahmad Abu Jami, 5, Hayfa Tawfiq Ahmad Abu Jami, 9, Yasmin Ahmad Salamah Abu Jami, 25, Suheila Bassam Abu Jami, Shahinaz Walid Muhammad Abu Jami, one-year-old, Rayan Abu Jami, 9, an elderly woman Fatima Abu Jami, Rozan Abu Jami, 14, and Ahmad Salhoub, 34, a next door neighbor.
The bodies of two children and a woman could not be identified.
In al-Nuseirat refugee camp, an airstrike killed a man traveling on a motorcycle at 7:30 a.m., while medics announced the death of two people south of Gaza City.
A fisherman, Raed Bardawil, was also killed in Rafah.
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