The death toll in Gaza reached 631 on Tuesday as emergency teams pulled dead bodies from the rubble of homes destroyed by Israeli strikes on the 16th day of the assault, Maan news agency reported.

The death toll in Gaza reached 631 Palestinian martyrs and the wounded numbered over 3750 on Tuesday as emergency teams pulled dead bodies from the rubble of homes destroyed by Israeli strikes on the 16th day of the assault, Maan news agency reported.

The latest martyrs, who have yet to be identified, died in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City as a result of Israeli artillery shelling, health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said.

Before that, al-Qidra said 22-year-old Mahmoud Salim Mustafa Daraj succumbed to his wounds in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

The deaths brought the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation army on Tuesday to 31.

Palestinian medical sources earlier announced the death of Ahmad Abu Seido by Israeli shelling on a park in eastern Gaza City.

Rescue teams removed body of a man from rubble in Shujaiyya neighborhood.

Al-Qidra earlier announced another martyr as four-year-old girl Muna Rami al-Kharawt in the northern Gaza Strip.

The bodies of two women were also removed from the debris of their homes in the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City, al-Qidra said.

He identified the two martyrs as 70-year-old Fatima Hasan Azzam and 50-year-old Maryam Hasan Azzam.

Additionally, emergency teams pulled the body of Muhammad al-Hindi from a destroyed building in Tal al-Hawa in southern Gaza.

Earlier Tuesday, over dozens of Palestinians were killed after Israeli airstrikes and artillery hit their homes.