British Airways to resume flights to Israel; Aftermath of reported Israeli strikes (Pictures)

British Airways has revealed plans to resume flights to and from Israel, beginning in April.

The airline, which suspended services to Tel Aviv in October after the Hamas attacks, said it was aiming to launch four return services a week from 1 April.

The decision will be kept under review because of the evolving nature of the conflict.

In pictures: The aftermath of reported Israeli strikes

More on the reports of Israeli attacks overnight in central and southern parts of Gaza. 

Pictures shared by Reuters news agency show the aftermath of airstrikes in the southern city of Rafah.

Women and children ‘killed after Israeli strike hits residential building’

At least nine people, including women and children, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on central Gaza and the southern city of Rafah overnight, witnesses and hospital officials told the Associated Press.

The strikes hit a kindergarten-turned-shelter for the displaced in the central town of Zuwaida and a residential building in Rafah, AP reported.

The dead and wounded were taken to nearby hospitals where the bodies were seen by AP journalists.

More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have fled to Rafah, bordering Egypt, after heeding Israeli evacuation orders.

Israeli ground forces are still focussing on the city of Khan Younis, just north of Rafah, but Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly warned this week that Rafah would be next.

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