ISRAELI strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed more than 60 Palestinians, including women and children, the Gaza Health Ministry said today.

This comes nearly a week after Israel broke its ceasefire with Hamas with a brutal bombardment.

Among those killed during the Israeli killing spree was Hossam Shabat, a Palestinian freelance reporter working for the Al Jazeera satellite news network.

Mr Shabat was killed by an Israeli air strike on his car in northern Gaza on Monday.

Mr Shabat had previously been wounded by an Israeli strike last November, the network reported at the time.

Al Jazeera is one of the few international media outlets to have remained in Gaza throughout the war. The channel is owned by Qatar, which alongside Egypt and the US has been a negotiator for the ceasefire.

The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strike that killed Mr Shabat. But previously Israel has accused other Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza of being Palestinian resistance fighters. 

The channel denies the accusations and says Israel is trying to silence journalists in Gaza.

Palestinian medics reported that an Israeli strike hit a school where displaced people were sheltering in the Gaza Strip, killing at least four people, including a child.

Another 18 people were wounded in Monday’s strike in the built-up Nuseirat refugee camp, according to al-Awda Hospital, which received the casualties. 

Three other hospitals had earlier reported 25 deaths from Israeli strikes overnight and into Monday.

Meanwhile, officials say that Egypt has introduced a new proposal to try and get the Gaza ceasefire back on track.

In the new proposal Hamas would release five living hostages, including a US-Israeli, in return for Israel allowing humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and another pause in the fighting, an Egyptian official said Monday. 

Israel would also release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.

A Hamas official said the group had “responded positively” to the proposal, without elaborating. 

The Israeli military says that a senior Hamas leader killed in a strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip was in charge of the group’s finances.

Ismail Barhoum was killed in an Israeli strike late Sunday on Nasser Hospital, where Hamas said he was receiving treatment. The strike also killed a teenage boy recovering from surgery.

The military said Monday that Mr Barhoum oversaw Hamas’s finances in Gaza and transferred funds to its military wing. 

Israeli military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani denied that Mr Barhoum was receiving medical treatment in the hospital.

Experts from the United Nations and rights groups have said that Israeli attacks on hospitals and schools may constitute war crimes.