At least 50 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the city of Beit Lahia in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, as reported by the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Ministry of Health late Thursday evening.

Mahmoud Basal, Palestinian Civil Defense spokesman in Gaza, told Xinhua that 13 people were killed and 40 others were injured as a result of an Israeli shelling that targeted a house for displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.

At least 31 killed in pre-dawn airstrikes, Gaza medics say Israel says van held 'Islamic Jihad terrorist cell' Hamas and Israel trade blame over ceasefire deal delays CAIRO/GAZA Dec 26 (Reuters) - Gaza authorities said an Israeli airstrike killed five Palestinian journalists in a vehicle outside a hospital on Thursday but the Israeli army said the victims were Islamic Jihad militants posing as media workers.

At least 59 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, 50 of them in a strike on a building in the most northern part of the strip near the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia.

The medics with the Gaza health authorities said no fewer than 10 people were killed, including five journalists, and more than a dozen wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza early Thursday According to the medics,