At least 28 people, including children, have died in a wave of Israeli military strikes throughout the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza's civil defence agency. A school sheltering displaced families was among the facilities struck, killing eight people including four children over the weekend, the agency said.

Israeli strikes in Gaza left 77 people dead over 24 hours, the Gaza civil defense force said early Friday. More strikes followed.

In November, over a year into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a report by the Gaza-based Community Training Center for Crisis Management produced a grim statistic: “Nearly all children in the embattled Palestinian enclave believe their death is imminent — and nearly half of them want to die.”