Israeli strikes kill Gaza doctor's 9 children

CAIRO — The bodies of 79 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours, Gaza's Health Ministry said on Saturday, a toll that does not include hospitals in the battered north that it said are now inaccessible.

Nine of a doctor's 10 children were among those killed in Israel's renewed military offensive, colleagues and the Health Ministry said.

Alaa al-Najjar, a pediatrician at Nasser Hospital, was on duty at the time and ran home to find her family's house on fire, Ahmad al-Farra, head of the hospital's pediatric department, told The Associated Press.