20 more killed in Israeli strikes, toll hits 514

GAZA CITY, July 21 (agencies): The death toll in Gaza rose to 514 Monday following the bloodiest day in six years in the Palestinian enclave where Israel is pressing a punishing military operation.
According to figures released by emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra, some 20 people were killed in several strikes across Gaza on Monday and 45 bodies were pulled from the rubble in areas hit by heavy fighting a day earlier.
Separately, the Israeli army said it had killed "more than 10 militants" who had infiltrated southern Israel through two cross-border tunnels.
Militants killed inside Israel are not included in Qudra's Gaza toll.
Among those killed on Monday was a family of nine who died in an Israeli strike on a house in the southern city of Rafah, he said. Seven of the victims were children.
Four more people were killed in various strikes to the south and east of Gaza City, while another died in the northern town of Beit Hanun. There was also one other casualty in Rafah, he said.
Of the 45 bodies recovered on Monday, 11 were from Shejaiya, hiking the death toll from a blistering Sunday attack to 72 dead, he said.
Qudra has said 80 percent of the victims in Shejaiya were women, children and elderly people, with around 400 people wounded.
Another 23 of the bodies were pulled from a three-storey house belonging to the Abu Jamaa family in the southern city of Khan Yunis which was hit on Sunday, raising the overall death toll from a single strike to 28, Qudra said.
Meanwhile: The UN Security Council called for an "immediate ceasefire" as Israel pressed on with a blistering assault on Gaza on Monday.
As world efforts to end the fighting gathered pace, Israel said it killed 10 Hamas militants in an early morning gun battle in southern Israel after they used a tunnel to get across the border.
US President Barack Obama echoed the call for an immediate ceasefire in a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu early Monday, as Secretary of State John Kerry headed to the region to join truce efforts.
A fresh Israeli air strike killed a family of nine, including seven children, in the southern city of Rafah, early Monday, emergency services said.
It came after after more than 150 Palestinians were killed on Sunday, the deadliest day so far of an offensive now in its 14th day.
The Israeli army said 13 soldiers had been killed inside Gaza on Sunday, raising to 18 the number of soldiers killed since a ground operation began late on Thursday.