GAZA - Israeli strikes on Gaza continued early Monday amid calls from the international community for a ceasefire, raising the overall death toll to 170, with 1,154 injured.

The latest casualties were four Palestinians, including a father and son, who were killed in three separate airstrikes on the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday night, medics and witnesses said.

Israeli military offensive and airstrikes on the Gaza Strip began early Tuesday, and more than 80 of the dead to date are civilians, a Gaza Health Ministry spokesman said.

Among the killed were 36 children and 32 women, while 350 children and 460 women were injured, he added. (Xinhua)