The girl was named as Shahid Abu Rokbah, and rescuers said her family fled from east of the Khan Younis district to inside the city in search of safety, only to be killed.
He and others dug through the rubble of the building, which housed shops in its ground floor, with hand tools to avoid injuring anyone still alive.
We removed the woman in the evening and the children were martyed and we just took them out from under rubble," he said.
Gaza's health ministry said Israel's retaliatory strikes had killed at least 770 people and wounded more than 4,000.
Reporting by Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, Bassam Masoud, Hamuda Hassan, Muath Freij; Writing by Alexandra Hudson; editing by Jonathan OatisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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