Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli strikes killed 44 people on Thursday, including 23 in an attack on a home in the center of the Palestinian territory. "Forty-four people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip," civil defense official Mohammad Al-Mughayyir told AFP. "Twenty-three people were killed, others injured, and several (are) missing following an Israeli air strike on the Qreinawi family's home east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza." AFP