Relatives of senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander Khaled Mansour, killed in an Israeli air strike, mourned over his body at a morgue in Al-Shifa hospital in Rafah, Gaza on Sunday 7 August.

He was among eight Palestinians, including a child, whose bodies were pulled from rubble in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, local media reported, after an Israeli air strike on his home on Saturday.

Gaza's Ministry of Health said 32 Palestinians, including six children, have been killed since the start of the latest conflict with Israel on 5 August. It said 215 more had been injured, including 96 children, 30 women and 12 elderly people.

The latest conflict is the most serious between Israel and Gaza since an 11-day conflict in May 2021.

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: Rafah - 7 August 2022. Relatives of senior of Islamic Jihad Khaled Mansour was killed in Israeli strikes mourn over his body at morgue in al-shifa hospital, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

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The bodies of eight Palestinians, including a child, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike last night on a house in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, were pulled out of the rubble by civil defense teams and citizens later during the night, according to local and media sources.

Latest figures by the Ministry of Health show that the number of Palestinians killed since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on August 05 has risen to 32, including 6 children, while 215 others have been injured, including 96 children, 30 women and 12 elderly.

WAFA correspondent said the bodies of the eight martyrs were pulled out from the rubble of the al-Mudallal family house which was levelled to the ground by Israeli airstrikes. He said the bodies of the 8 martyrs were pulled out after hours of hard work by civil defense teams and ordinary civilians, noting that three of the martyrs were identified as Khaled Saeed Mansour, Ziad Ahmad al-Mudallal and Ra’fat Saleh Sheikh Eid.

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