At least 14 killed by Israeli strikes on refugee camps in central Gaza, hospital says

 Israeli strikes on refugee camps in central Gaza have killed at least 14 people, including a family of eight, the Al-Aqsa hospital said Sunday.

At the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, eight members of a family were killed when the Israeli military struck a house they were sheltering in, according to the hospital. Another six people were killed when an Israeli tank shelled the Bureij refugee camp, it said.

CNN has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for comment about the strikes.

One man, Alaa Abu Ghali, told a cameraman working for CNN in Gaza that his brother Waleed’s whole family was killed in the strike.

“They struck them when they were asleep in safety in the house, the whole family — my brother, his children, and his wife — they have all been erased as a family … Waleed is gone along with his wife and children. We are all displaced from Rafah and have been in this house for five months. There was no prior warning.”

At the hospital yard, near the morgue, a young girl desperately clung to her brother who was killed in the Bureij camp, crying as she checked his lifeless body for a heartbeat.

“Leave me with him. I want my brother. Leave me in his arms. He is going to heaven. Wake up! Stop joking. He is breathing,” the child cried as she hugged her brother with her mother.

“God loves you; that’s why he took you,” she said.