Israeli airstrikes killed at least nine people in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, including four infants and two women, according to Palestinian medics. (AP Video by Abdal Kareem Hana / Production by Waf

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 21 people, including at least two children, on Saturday in Gaza, hospital staff said, while a new effort at ceasefire talks was underway in Qatar after nearly 15 months of war.

Palestinian medics say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least five people in the Gaza Strip, including two infants and a woman. One strike hit a home in the central city of Deir al-Balah, killing two men and a woman, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the casualties.

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

Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 26 people across Gaza as they struck Hamas security officers and an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone.

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.

Hospital staff in southern Gaza say the latest Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 21 people. Hamas releases a hostage video of an Israeli soldier.

Five children were killed as they sheltered together in the same tent in Muwasi, according to the director of the children's ward at Nasser Hospital in nearby Khan Younis.