"I tried to cover them with blankets to put out the fire, but they were all burned," said Hanan Abu Hadid, the mother of victims killed in the Israeli strike. She described her attempt to save her children after their tent was hit by an Israeli airstrike early Saturday morning, just one day before the planned reopening of the Rafah Crossing.

Local health authorities say at least 32 Palestinians were killed in multiple Israeli strikes at various locations across the Gaza Strip.