Gaza’s civil defence agency has said that 50 people have been killed in Israeli strikes on the Palestinian territory since midnight.

“The number of martyrs killed in Israeli shelling targeting civilian homes in the northern Gaza Strip between midnight and early this morning has risen to 50 … Our teams are still working in those areas,” civil defence official Mohammed al-Mughayyir told AFP.

A doctor at the Indonesian Hospital in the northern city of Beit Lahia, who requested anonymity, said that 30 dead and dozens of wounded, mostly children and women, had arrived at the hospital.

Mohammed Saleh, acting director of Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia, said that the hospital had received five dead and “more than 75 injured” as a result of the bombardment.

“The Israeli occupation bombed the house next to mine, hitting it directly while its residents were inside,” Yousef Al-Sultan, 40, from the al-Salatin area, west of Beit Lahia, told AFP, reporting “air strikes, artillery shelling and gunfire from quadcopter drones.”