At least 91 Palestinian children in Gaza have died in airstrikes, and Israeli forces have shot and killed five Palestinian boys in the occupied West Bank, the group said.

Entire families have been obliterated, DCI-Palestine added, pointing to the example of the Shaban household. The family of six — including 11-year-old Omar, seven-year-old Batoul, 10-year-old Ghada and baby Ahmad — were all killed.

Israel has stepped up its ferocious pounding of the besieged Gaza Strip as its troops struggled to clear out Hamas fighters more than two days after they burst across the fence from Gaza and overran Israeli bases.

Israeli warplanes bombed a densely populated neighborhood at the Jabalia refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

In a statement, the Israeli air force said it had dropped some 2,000 munitions and more than 1,000-ton bombs on Gaza in the last 20 hours.

Source: Al Jazeera