Gaza’s civil defense agency said an Israeli air strike early Saturday killed 15 people from a Palestinian family, including nine children and three women, Reuters reports.

The strike hit the home of the Ajlah family in Al-Zawaida neighborhood of central Gaza, civil defense spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.

The IDF is aware of reports of 15 people killed in a Gaza airstrike and is looking into them, a spokesperson said.

The 10-month-long Israel-Hamas war has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, said Gaza health authorities.

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