Three more children killed as death toll reaches 264

Three Palestinian children have been killed in an Israeli shelling in northern Gaza Strip.

"The three children were killed in artillery shelling of a residential compound in northern Gaza Strip," Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qodra told Anadolu Agency.

He said that the bodies of the three children – two brothers and a sister – had been totally burnt in the attack.

The latest fatalities raise the death toll among Palestinians in Gaza to 264.