- 10 killed in airstrike on Deir Al-Balah
- Dead include mayor of Deir Al-Balah
- At least seven people killed in strike in Gaza City
At least 22 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Saturday, medics said.
At least 10 people were killed in an airstrike near the municipality building in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip where people gathered to receive aid, medics said.
Casualties were being carried by foot, on rickshaws and private cars from the site of the attack to the hospital, medics said. The strike killed the head of the Hamas-run administrative committee in central Gaza, Diab Ali al-Jaru, a Hamas source said.
Four more people were killed in a separate strike in the area.
In a separate strike in Gaza City at least seven people were killed, Palestinian medics said, including a woman and her baby.
A local journalist, Mohammed Baalousha who worked for Dubai Al Mashhad television was killed in a separate airstrike in Gaza City, health officials said. The military was looking into the report, a spokesperson said.
At least 137 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza in more than a year of war, according to The Committee to Protect Journalists.
A fresh bid by Egypt, Qatar and the United States to reach a truce has gained momentum in recent weeks.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday discussed with visiting US officials efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza and a hostages-for prisoners deal in the Palestinian enclave, Sisi's office said.
