Thursday's death toll from Israel's attacks on Gaza increases

More than 74 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed in a wave of Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip, according to Al Jazeera.

At least 57 people were killed in overnight attacks and the death toll increased on Thursday morning as a barrage of strikes hit residential areas in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, according to local health officials, the report said.

Medical staff at Nasser Medical Complex reported an influx of casualties, many of them children.