The new year brought more death for civilians in Gaza as Israel Defense Forces airstrikes resulted in 17 killed on Wednesday, according to Palestinian accounts.

Israel killed at least 71 more Palestinians in a series of attacks across Gaza in the last 24 hours. Israeli forces carried out “horrific crimes”, carrying out 34 airstrikes across the besieged territory, Al Jazeera quoted local officials as saying. It was one of the bloodiest days of Israel’s war on Gaza in recent weeks.

There have been several deaths according to Palestinian sources in a new Israeli strike in the south of the Gaza Strip. The target of the airstrike was said to have been a command centre for the Palestinian militant organization Hamas in a city administration building,

Israeli strikes killed at least 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, Gaza officials said Wednesday, as the nearly 15-month war ground on into the new year.

Israeli air strikes killed at least 68 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including at a tent camp where the head of the enclave’s Hamas-controlled police force, his deputy and nine displaced people died,