Family of four killed in Israeli strike in northern Gaza

A family of four, including two children, were killed in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza on Thursday, according to Palestinian hospital and security sources.

"The bodies of four members of the Ahmad family were recovered in pieces after an Israeli strike hit a house in the Beit Lahia Project area in the northern Gaza Strip," an official at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City told AFP.

He said the children were aged 12 and eight.