At least 10 family members, including five children aged between three and 16, were killed in an overnight airstrike on a neighborhood in Rafah, in southern Gaza, the local hospital reported.
The mother of the Ayyad family is still missing, according to a CNN stringer at Abu Youssef Al-Najjar hospital, were CNN footage showed relatives weeping over the bodies of the deceased wrapped in white shrouds.
Those killed had been displaced multiple times from Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, in Gaza City, in northern Gaza, an uncle told CNN. In the aftermath of the attack, many of the children were found with their remains scattered and missing, relatives added.
Hatem Abu Jamous says his nieces and nephews were quietly sleeping next to each other, when the area was struck. "We can't identify them, they are all body parts," he told CNN. "I can't speak anymore."
“They were displaced from one place to another," Suzan Abu Touha, who says her sister was among the dead, told CNN. "They were terrified and scared and running from one place to another and they didn’t find a place -- and this is the place they found. Where are they supposed to go?”