In a nationwide address on Saturday, Mr Netanyahu said the killings “broke my heart, broke the entire nation’s heart,” but indicated no change in the country’s military campaign.
“We are as committed as ever to continue until the end, until we dismantle Hamas, until we return all our hostages,” he said.
Indeed, Israel continued to press ahead with its offensive on Sunday. Airstrikes hit the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, the city of Deir al-Balah in the centre of the Strip and the southern city of Rafah.
The son of a spokesman of Hamas-ally Islamic Jihad was killed in the strike on Jabalia, a member of the terrorist group told Reuters.
Five Palestinians killed Sunday morning
Five Palestinians were also killed Sunday morning in an Israeli army operation at the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry.
The French foreign ministry said one of its workers had died as a result of injuries sustained from an Israeli attack on a house in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip. France condemned the bombing of a residential building.
The World Health Organisation also issued a warning on Sunday, that the emergency department of the al-Shifa hospital is a “bloodbath”.
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