According to the under-secretary of the Palestinian Health Ministry, Hassan Khalaf, 507 Palestinians, including 107 children have been confirmed dead since the start of Israel’s attacks on Gaza nine days ago. Some 2450 have been injured.

Khalaf said that since the start of the ground invasion on Saturday night, 70 people, including 21 children and 11 women, have been killed. Three hundred seventy one have been injured.

Palestinian medical officials in Gaza said that the five members of the Baker family were blown to pieces when Israeli warplanes targeted their home in the At-Toufah neighborhood of Gaza City. Medics also said that two of the children were one and two years old respectively. The ages of the other two were not determined.

Another four children were killed in the town of Beit Lahiya, in the north of the Gaza Strip, in a series of airstrikes during which ten civilians were killed and 30 injured. Earlier on Saturday, three children were killed in an airstrike in the city of Rafah, in the south that targeted a Palestinian fighter.

Tank fire killed at least eighteen Palestinians on Sunday, including 14 in Beit Lahiya and four in Beit Hanoun.

Israel escalated shelling in the Gaza Strip in recent hours as resistance fighters continue to confront Israeli tanks and ground troops that entered the Strip from four points.

At least 514 Palestinians have been killed since Israel began intense airstrikes on 27 December. Gaza medical officials put the number of wounded at 2,250 over nine days.