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.

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.

Israel’s war on Gaza has killed over 45,500 Palestinians, according to the health ministry, displaced nearly 90 per cent of the 2.3 million people, and left the tiny, densely populated coastal territory in ruins. Humanitarian agencies estimate that over 1.6 million Gazans are living in makeshift shelters, nearly half a million in flood-prone areas.

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza result in the deaths of 17 Palestinians, including a journalist, as the humanitarian crisis deepens.