A spokesman for the emergency team, Ashraf Al-Qudra said the attack early this morning on a coffee shop in the city of Khan Yunis and caused eight people were killed and 15 others were injured,
"The second attack hit a house in Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza, causing a number of deaths and wounded?? Said.
An attack on a car in western Gaza City after morning resulted in three people were killed and four others wounded.
Gaza health ministry says most of at least 81 killed in Israeli air strikes are non-combatants, as missile kills nine watching World Cup semi-final at café. Deaths rise in Israeli air strikes on Gaza.
The Al Haj family never heard it coming: An Israeli missile smashed into their home in the middle of the night, destroying the structure and killing eight relatives in a matter of seconds. A survivor said all the dead were civilians.
Inside the Fun Time Beach café on Gaza's Mediterranean shore, nine friends and siblings gathered around a portable television powered by a generator to watch Argentina take on Holland in the semi finals of the World Cup.
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| Remains of the Fun Time Beach bar at Khan Younis beach where nine friends were watching the World Cup when they were struck by a fatal Israeli strike |
At 11.30pm, half an hour into the match, an Israeli missile blasted through the flimsy roof of the tumbledown structure to scatter the social gathering in bloody mayhem.
The strike killed Mohammed Fawana along with three sets of brothers – Ahmed and Suleiman Astal, 18 and 16, their cousin Musa, also 16, Mohammed and Ibrahim Ganan, 24, and 25, and Hamdi and Ibrahim Sawaleh, 20 and 28.
A third Sawaleh brother, Salim, 23, was still missing on Thursday, with giant earth moving machines upturning huge quantities of sand in a search for his body.
"They had simply come here to watch the match," said Wael Sobih, standing beside a wrecked beach-scape of broken plastic chairs and upturned palm trees. "This is a play area, not a military camp. It was a normal social occasion." Others said the nine often watched football and had been rooting for Argentina. There was no comment on whether any of them belonged to Hamas or other Palestinian militant factions.
The fans' deaths was just one of several graphic examples of the soaring human toll being exacted by Israel's Operation Protective Edge offensive, launched on Monday with the stated goal of stopping rockets being fired into Israeli territory from Gaza, a coastal enclave where 1.8 million mostly impoverished Palestinians live.
Just a few miles down the road, in Magazi, an Israeli missile shorn the Nawasrah family's two-storey home in half on Wednesday afternoon – reducing one side to rubble while leaving the other side neatly intact, its undamaged furnishings and decor exposed to full view.
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| Mona Halibi,43, who poses with one of the few things to have survived the massive blast that blew her home apart |
The strike killed Salah Nawasrah, 23, his four-months-pregnant wife, Aisha, and his two nephews, Nidal, 4, and two-year-old Mohammed, with whom he had been playing at the time.
Zeinab Nasser, 57, an eyewitness and family relative, said the younger child's head was blown off and later found in the garden.
Mr Nawasrah's sister, Somud, vehemently denied that he had affiliations with Hamas or other groups, describing him as an electrician.
In Khan Younis – a town where several Israeli strikes on civilian homes have occurred – eight members of the same family were killed when two Israeli missiles struck a house at around 1.25am on Thursday, killing Yasir al-Hajj, 27, a Hamas member.
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