ISRAELI air strikes on Gaza have killed at least 22 Palestinians, including women and children, sources on the scene said today.

The air and drone attacks included another on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza yesterday that killed three people.

Reporting from central Deir el-Balah in Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said the victims were trying to leave their home in search of food when they were targeted by a drone. 

He said the three were instantly killed and the remains of their bodies were left in the street as “nobody has the ability to get to the bombed site and remove the bodies.”

The Jabalia refugee camp has been under Israeli siege for more than 60 days, with tens of thousands of Palestinians denied access to food and water, leaving many starving.

“Jabalia has been turned into a graveyard,” Mr Mahmoud said.

An earlier Israeli attack on the southern city of Rafah slaughtered 10 people while they had lined up to buy flour.

Mr Mahmoud reported scenes of hunger similar to northern Gaza were now present in the south of the enclave.

He also reported seeing dead bodies piled up at the al-Aqsa Hospital morgue after a bombing of a residential building in the Bureij refugee camp.

Other eyewitnesses said at least nine members of one family, most of them women and children, had been killed in the Bureij attack.

Mr Mahmoud said: “The agony keeps on unfolding here at al-Aqsa Hospital, where survivors and relatives showed up early this morning to collect the bodies from the morgue of the hospital.

“At some point, the morgue of the hospital was packed with the bodies and there was not enough room for more bodies.”

The head of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safia, said the lives of more than 100 patients were in serious danger at the northern Gaza facility after Israeli air strikes cut electricity, oxygen and water supplies.

Mr Abu Safia said: “The situation is extremely dangerous. We have patients in the intensive care unit and others awaiting surgeries. Access to the operating rooms is only possible after restoring electricity and oxygen supply.”

He said the hospital currently had 112 wounded patients, including six in intensive care and 14 children.

Israel claims its operations did not directly target the hospital in Beit Lahiya, which is next to the besieged Jabalia refugee camp.

Four staff at Kamal Adwan Hospital were killed on Friday, one of the last operational medical facilities in northern Gaza.