Palestinian health authorities said at least 50 Palestinians had been killed in strikes on Saturday.

Israeli airstrikes hit around 40 targets across the Gaza Strip over the past day, the military said yesterday, hours after Hamas rejected an Israeli ceasefire offer that it said fell short of its demand to agree a full end to the war.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said yesterday that a series of Israeli air strikes killed at least 40 people, most of them in encampments for displaced civilians, as Israel pressed its unrelenting military offensive in the Palestinian territory.

A senior Hamas official told AFP on Wednesday that the group is still preparing its response to an Israeli proposal for a ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza.

“Unlike in the past, the IDF is not evacuating areas that have been cleared and seized,” Katz said in a statement following a meeting with military commanders, adding that “tens of percent” of Gaza had been added to the zone.

Separate strikes kill 30, including police head, brothers

Israel yesterday announced that its military had completed the takeover of a new corridor in southern Gaza, advancing its efforts to seize large parts of the war-battered Palestinian territory.

Israel resumed intense strikes on the Gaza Strip on March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas

The journalist is one of at least 12 people killed in Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory on Monday

Journalist among the dead; France opposes any displacement, annexation in Gaza, West Bank

The Government of Bangladesh demanded that Israel immediately cease all military operations

Rafah, in southern Gaza, had already been the target of a major Israeli offensive about a year ago.

Israel conducted deadly strikes on Lebanon yesterday in response to a rocket attack from across the border, as militant group Hezbollah denied responsibility for the launch. 

The warning came as Israel pressed the renewed assault it launched on Tuesday, shattering the relative calm since a January 19 ceasefire.

Hamas fires at Tel Aviv in first riposte to ‘massacres’ of Gaza civilians

The renewed offensive shattered a relative calm that had pervaded since truce took hold mid-January.

Israel on Tuesday launched its most intense strikes on the Gaza Strip since a January 19 ceasefire

The strikes, by far the largest since a truce took effect in January, killed more than 400 people across the Gaza Strip, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory.

"Every death would have and could have been avoided had Hamas accepted the 'bridge' proposal that SE Witkoff offered last Wednesday," says a State Department spokesperson

'There are bodies and limbs on the ground, and the wounded cannot find any doctor to treat them,' a displaced victim says