Seven Palestinians including three children from the same family were killed and seven injured in renewed Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, bringing the total number of Palestinians killed in ten days of hostilities to 237 and 1,764 injured.
The airstrikes came immediately after a temporary five-hour humanitarian ceasefire between Hamas and Israel ended, and as Palestinian militants fired rockets across southern Israel.
Three children were killed in a strike on the house of the Shuhaibar family in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, in an attack that also injured three other members of the family.
The three dead children were identified as Fulla Tariq Shuhaibar, Jihad Issam Shuhaibar, and Wasim Issam Shuhaibar.
An Israeli army targets a house for Al Jbour family in Khan Younis Rahaf, killing Khalil Al Jbour, 4.
Yassin Al Humaidi, 4, also died of injuries sustained during a strike on Gaza City.
An Israeli airstrike also hit Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip at 4:35 p.m. Thursday, killing a man.
Spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health Ashraf Al Qidra said that the body of Ismail Youssef Al Kafarneh arrived at a hospital in Beit Hanoun after he was found dead in his home following an airstrike.
Hamza Al Ubadala was also killed in an airstrike on Beit Hanoun.
Four Palestinians were also injured in an Israeli airstrike at eastern Al Bureij in central Gaza Strip.
Israeli warplanes also targeted a farm in Al Qarrara town in northern Khan Younis inthe southern Gaza Strip, open land in eastern Al Maghazi, land belonging to the Judeh family in Jabaliya and another strike near three houses in Al Zawaideh.
At 4:10 p.m., an hour and ten minutes after the end of "ceasefire" period, an airstrike targeted an open area in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza Strip.
No injuries were reported in that strike.
Another airstrike at 4:20 p.m. hit a house in Al Shujaiyeh.
Israel declared earlier that two rockets hit Ashkelon at 3:02 p.m., just as the "ceasefire" period ended.
At 3:35 p.m. Al Qassam Brigades claimed responsibility of targeting "Kibbutz Nirim" with three mortar shells and targeting Kissufim with two 107 missiles.
Israel also said that a rocket hit an open area in Beersheba, with no injuries or damages reported.
Al Nasser Salah Al Din Brigades said that they targeted Ashkelon city with two grad missiles at 3:05 p.m.
The military wing of Hamas, the Al Qassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for rockets that hit Sderot.
Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades claimed responsibility for the targeting of Nahil Oz with three rockets.
The National Resistance and the Al Nasser Salah Al Din Brigades said they targeted Sufa with two 107 rockets.
Al Quds Brigades said that they targeted a military site and Sdirot with nine missiles, and the Beit Hanoun "Erez" crossing with two mortar shells.

Al Bawaba