Israeli strikes on Gaza claimed the lives of a man and a woman earlier today raising the overall death toll to 172 as the campaign entered its seventh day.
Both died of injuries sustained in Israeli air strikes on Sunday, when another eight people were killed. Late on Sunday Israeli strikes killed a 65-year old man in Deir el-Balah, in the southern part of the strip, a 20-year-old in Rafah adjacent to the Egyptian border, and two in Khan Yunis, also in the south.
One strike on the northern town of Jabaliya struck a house, killing a 14-year-old boy, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.
Shortly afterwards, another strike killed a woman in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, he said. A man was killed in a raid on Beit Hanun in northern Gaza, where the Israeli army has warned it will sharply escalate its offensive and had urged residents to flee.
Elsewhere another person succumbed to injuries from an earlier strike, Qudra said, giving an overall toll of 172 dead.
About 1,230 people have been wounded.
