Israeli Tank Shells 'Hit Hospital, Killing Four'

Four people have been killed and a further 60 injured after Israeli tank shells hit a hospital in central Gaza, according to Palestinian medics.

Thirty of those wounded in the attack were reportedly medical staff.

Health official Ashraf al Kidra said 12 shells hit the intensive care unit, surgery department and administration building of the Al Aqsa hospital in the town of Deir el-Balah.

A Palestinian man holds a child while fleeing the Shaja'iya district

The Israeli army has claimed it killed more than 10 Hamas militants who entered Israel via cross-border tunnels.

Grainy video released by the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) showed what appeared to be Hamas gunmen in a fire fight with Israeli forces before they were hit by an air-strike.

The film showed several armed men lying in the grass near what Israel claimed was the exit to the tunnel on the Israeli side.

Officials said 35,000 civilians fled the fighting on Sunday

After exchanging fire the men appear to retreat before they're hit by what Israel claimed was an airstrike. There was no way of verifying the video.

"Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel through two tunnels from north Gaza. IDF intercepted and killed more than 10 terrorists," Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner wrote on his official Twitter feed.

The attack came as the UN Security Council called for an "immediate ceasefire" and Israel continued its air assault on the Gaza Strip this morning, killing 28 members of a single family near the enclave's southern border with Egypt, according to medics.

Israeli soldiers mourn during the funeral of colleague Bnaya Rubel in Holon

One of the tunnels came out just one kilometre (half a mile) from the southern Israeli town of Sderot, the IDF said.

Military radio claimed that the "second terrorist squad" tried to approach Niram kibbutz, close to Gaza's northeastern tip, where they engaged in gunfire with Israeli soldiers.

Several soldiers were hurt, the radio report said, without giving further details.

Rubel, 20, was killed in Gaza on Saturday during Operation Protective Edge

Hamas' armed wing the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades claimed it had carried out "an operation behind enemy lines in response to the massacre in Shejaiya [Shaja'iya]".

Meanwhile, Palestinian health official said five people have been killed and 60 wounded after Israeli tanks shelled a hospital in Gaza.

The official, Ashraf al-Kidra, says 12 shells hit the Al Aqsa hospital in the town of Deir el-Balah.

The death toll of Gaza Palestinians has reached 508, according to health officials, following a weekend of heavy fighting that claimed the lives of at least 100 Palestinians and 13 Israeli troops, including two Americans.

The wife and children of an Israeli soldier mourn during his funeral

Meanwhile, several explosions could be heard and clouds of black smoke rose over Gaza City's Shaja'iya and Zeitoun neighbourhoods this morning.

Israel's continued aerial bombardment has resulted in an exodus of some 35,000 civilians, according to officials.

People fleeing Israeli shelling in Shaja'iya at the weekend described it as a "massacre", with many women and children among the dead.

Pro-Israel supporters rallied at Times Square, New York at the weekend

The bodies of 16 Palestinians were found in rubble following the continued airstrikes, according to medics.

The Israeli army said it had given civilians two days warning to leave the area.

Meanwhile, Israel's UN ambassador Ron Prosor denied claims by Hamas that an Israeli soldier had been abducted.

The armed wing of Hamas claimed earlier it had kidnapped the soldier, saying: "We have captured a Zionist soldier and the occupation has not admitted that."

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon held talks with regional leaders and called on Israel to exercise "maximum restraint and do far more to protect civilians".

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas described the situation in Gaza as "intolerable" and the Israeli attacks a "crime against humanity".

The Israeli government has claimed Hamas was hiding behind the civilian population.

Spokesman Naftali Bennet said: "What Hamas is doing is effectively self genocide.

"They're, in a cowardly and cynical fashion, placing their women and children as shields, killing them, then coming to Sky News and other outlets and saying 'Israel is killing us'."

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