SEAToday.com, Gaza-According to hospital records, at least 19 died including nine children and five women after the house in Nuseirat Refugee Camp in Central Gaza was flattened by Israel. They were brought to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Rafah. One journalist from the Associated Press t the facility saw the bodies. He also said that preparation for funeral services was underway on Saturday, March 16.

Additionally, first responders retrieved five bodies from a destroyed house that was hit by an Israeli strike in the eastern part of Gaza on Friday, March 15.

The death toll keeps rising as at least seven other individuals including two children and three women were killed in the area during an attack just a day prior. More were also injured.

The victims were members of the Al-Khatib family. They were brought to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah.

The Gaza Health Ministry reported on Friday, that the death toll has reached 31 thousand 490 since the onset of the war. Meanwhile, 149 fatalities were recorded in the last 24 hours alone. (DKD)