Five members of one family, including children, were killed in an attack on a camp for displaced people in Deir el-Balah in the early hours of Sunday as they slept.

“We woke up to a loud explosion in the middle of the night,” said Mahmoud Fayad, an eyewitness. “We ran to the loud screams and found many civilians killed; and entire family, man, wife and their children.”

Dozens of others were injured in the attack, according to Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud.

“Many people in the vicinity of the tent site were reported with various injuries,” said Mahmoud, reporting from Deir el-Balah. “The overnight attack highlights the vulnerability of displaced civilians inside these tents.”

Then, later on Sunday, at least 11 people were killed in an Israeli air attack on a residential house in al-Bureij camp.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, said that the strike had hit the eastern part of the camp, and that there had been no prior warning to the residents of the building, which was flattened.

Abu Azzoum said that he “personally saw bodies… shredded to pieces” as they arrived at Deir el-Balah’s al-Aqsa Hospital, adding that they had been gathered in bags used for flour because of a lack of coffins.