Israel Air Force pilots have bombed a funeral in northern Gaza, killing more than a dozen mourners.

Family and friends of Dr Wasim Mubarak and his family had gathered on Thursday to commemorate the life of the doctor, his wife and 3 children who were killed in an Israeli air strike on their car on Wednesday.

Mourners were queuing to offer words of comfort to the Mubarak family when the near silence was ripped apart by blasts, followed by screams, according to a report in The National.

Fifteen people were killed as Israeli warplanes bombed the family's funeral tent in Al Salateen, Beit Lahia.

"The Israeli occupation isn't satisfied with just killing people, it even kills those who come to mourn them," family member Ibrahim Mubarak, 26 told The National.

While the number of those who died in the attack was put at 15, that number is expected to rise due to the severity of the injuries of many of those that survived the attacks.

An unofficial list shared by news outlets showed at least two children, aged 11 and 16, were among the dead in the Mubarak funeral strike.

"We started calling the ambulances but unfortunately, they were delayed in arriving," Mohammad Al Toum, who was at the funeral. told The National. "Only two ambulances arrived quickly and we began transferring the martyrs and the injured in civilian cars and tuk-tuks," he said.

Gaza has been cut off from the world largely since 2007 when Israel imposed a land, sea and air blockade. The Israeli military has killed nearly 50,000 people and injured more than 100,000 in the past 16 months, following the horrific Hamas-led attacks on 7 October 2023, which killed just under 1,200 people and resulted in the capture of 251 others.

Correspondingly, Israel has 'taken into custody thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, mostly men and boys, but some women and girls as well. They have generally been held in military facilities and further transferred to detention facilities and prisons inside Israel and the occupied West Bank,' according to a United Nations report. 'During raids on hospitals and schools serving as shelters for internally displaced persons (IDPs), the IDF has taken into their custody large numbers, in the thousands, including at least 310 medical staff, as well as patients, companions and IDPs,' the report said.

'More than 10,000 workers and patients from Gaza, who were legally present in Israel on 7 October, were also taken into custody in Israel in the days after. It is estimated that 3,200 of them were released and transferred into Gaza in November 2023, 6,441 were transferred to the occupied West Bank, while around 1,000 of them remain unaccounted for,' the UN report says.