Palestinians held funeral prayers outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip on Sunday after officials said six people, including a teenager, were killed in two Israeli strikes the night before. The mother and grandmother of a 15-year-old boy who was killed peeled back the white funeral shroud and kissed his cheeks as they sobbed.

Quds News Network reported that its journalists were killed in an airstrike while they were in a van parked outside of a hospital in Gaza.

Seven people were killed and others seriously wounded in an Israeli strike on the upper floor of Al-Wafaa hospital in the centre of Gaza city on Sunday, the Palestinian civil defence said.

Israel pounded the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing at least 23 people according to rescuers, nearly 15 months into the war with Hamas Palestinian militants.Far from Gaza, Israel and Lebanese group Hezbollah have traded accusations of violating a ceasefire that ended their war,

Palestinian medics said Israeli airstrikes on Sunday killed no fewer than nine Palestinians in two separate attacks in the Gaza Strip, taking the weekend death toll to 97. This is as U.S. and Arab mediators stepped up efforts to conclude a ceasefire deal.

A recent report by the UN Human Rights Office indicates that Israeli military operations in Gaza have severely compromised the region's health care infrastructure. The report documents numerous attacks on medical facilities,