Most of the casualties, in the town and refugee camp of Khan Younis, are said to have resulted from a helicopter missile attack.

Dozens were wounded by shrapnel in the attack

Some of the casualties were children

Friends and family grieved over victims in the morgue

This coffin was used as a makeshift stretcher for victims

People were stunned by the scale of the bloodshed

The attack prompted Palestinian fury, with many shouting anti-Israeli slogans...

... and burning tyres to protest against the incursion