The European and Kuwaiti hospitals in southern Gaza said they had received 17 bodies from strikes overnight, including several women and children.

Hamas separately said that Salah Bardawil, a member of its political bureau and of the Palestinian parliament, was killed in a strike near the southern city of Khan Younis that also killed his wife.

Bardawil was a well-known member of the group's political wing who gave media interviews over the years.

The Hamas official and his wife were not included in the tolls reported by the hospitals.

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