Gaza, ALRAY - At least 13 Palestinian people were killed by Israeli occupation forces in a series of airstrikes against residential houses in the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday at dawn.

Palestinian Ministry of Health said that 13 people were killed in the new aggression against the Gaza Strip, including four children and four women.

It added that at least 20 others were injured, including three children and seven women, indicating several of them suffer from critical wounds.

At dawn on Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces launched a series of airstrikes against residential houses in different parts of the densely-populated besieged Gaza Strip.

In the same context, Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement said that three of its leaders were killed in the airstrikes, identifying them as Jihad al-Ghannam, Khalil al-Bahtini, and Tariq Izz al-Deen.