Israeli strikes in Gaza kill children and a journalist

Palestinians mourn over the bodies of civil defence workers in the Nuseirat camp, at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza (Abdel Kareem Hana/AP)

Israeli forces continued to pound Gaza on Sunday, including the largely isolated north, as the Palestinian death toll in the war approached 45,000.

A large explosion lit up the southern Gaza skyline on Sunday night. An Israeli airstrike hit a school and killed at least 16 people in the southern city of Khan Younis, according to Nasser Hospital, where the bodies were taken. There was no immediate Israeli military statement.