Death toll from weekend Israel-Gaza fighting rises to 48

Mohammad Arada looks at the rubble of his family house after it was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike, in Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip (Adel Hana/AP)

The death toll from last weekend’s fighting between Israel and Gaza militants has risen to 48 after an 11-year-old girl and a man died from wounds sustained during the violence, the Health Ministry in Gaza said.

Israeli aircraft struck targets in the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group fired more than a thousand rockets over three days of fighting, the worst cross-border violence since an 11-day war with Hamas last year.