Dozens of Palestinians were killed or injured in an Israeli attack on a high-rise residential building in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, local doctors and regional officials said.
The Hamas-run Gaza government media office put the death toll at 72. It said Sunday morning's attack hit a home occupied by six families.
There was no independent confirmation of this report or the reported death toll, following Israel's barrage of shelling on targets across Gaza in recent days. Israeli officials have previously accused Gaza authorities of systematically exaggerating reports of casualties from attacks in the strip.
Israeli air attacks continue in Lebanon, with reports of airstrikes in Beirut and other areas on Sunday morning.
Three attacks were reported at separate locations on Hezbollah strongholds on the southern outskirts of the Lebanese capital, sending thick plumes of white smoke into the air above the targets.
There were also reports of strikes in several other parts of the country, including the port city of Tire.
The Israeli military said in a statement that the attack was “intelligence-based” and targeted Hezbollah headquarters and infrastructure. The statement added that civilians had been given advance warning.
The latest attacks in Lebanon came as Israeli media reported that Israeli forces had advanced up to three miles (5 kilometers) from the disputed border.
Israeli media said the IDF was deliberately “blurring” the scope of its operations in Lebanon, even though most of the Israeli government's goals had been achieved.
“Although the IDF will not admit this, the Northern Army completed on schedule the mission given to it by the political leadership two weeks ago. That mission…was to eliminate the threat of an invasion of Galilee,” Yoav said. Zitun wrote in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aronos.
Sunday's airstrikes in Gaza came amid Israeli military offensives in Beit Rahiya and the nearby towns of Beit Hanoun and Jabaliya.
The tight siege of three towns and a series of evacuation orders have sparked fears that Israel intends to force civilians to leave the northernmost part of Gaza and will not allow them to return.
“In recent weeks, there has been intense debate in Gaza about the so-called 'General Plan' within the Israeli military, which aims to wipe out Palestinians from northern Gaza by killing, displacing and starving them. and kill those who remain,” Médecins Sans Frontières said on Friday.
“The manner in which ongoing attacks are being carried out in the north reinforces the idea that we are witnessing the execution of this plan,” the NGO added.
Israel denies such intentions and says the offensive, launched last month, is an effort to prevent Hamas from regrouping in areas cleared in previous rounds of fighting.
Earlier on Sunday, an Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 people when a missile hit a house in the Braei refugee camp in central Gaza, medical officials said. Four other people are reported to have been killed in the nearby Nuseyrat camp.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that on Saturday evening, Israeli forces carried out an airstrike on a United Nations-run school sheltering displaced people, killing 10 people and injuring 20 others.
The Israeli military, which has repeatedly accused Hamas of using civilians as human shields, said it had attacked the Islamic extremist group's headquarters at the compound.
The war in Gaza began last October after Palestinian militants from Hamas and other armed groups launched a surprise attack on southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 250 others. Ta.
Approximately 100 hostages are believed to remain in Gaza, and approximately one-third of them are thought to have died. Israelis rallied again in Tel Aviv on Saturday night, demanding a cease-fire agreement for the return of the hostages.
The Gaza Ministry of Health announced that 43,799 people have been confirmed dead in Gaza since the war began. More than half of the confirmed casualties were women or children.
Israel has launched an offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon to allow an estimated 60,000 Israelis to return to their homes near the border after fleeing early in the war fearing attacks and shelling by Islamic extremists.
Although Hezbollah's capabilities have been significantly reduced, it has continued to fire rockets and missiles at Israel since the beginning of the Gaza conflict.
The Israeli military said Saturday that Hezbollah fired more than 80 projectiles across the border that day. Most were intercepted or no one was injured, but two civilians were injured in a “heavy rocket attack” by Hezbollah on a synagogue in Haifa, Israel's largest city. Police said the civilian's injuries were minor. Hezbollah said it fired missiles at five Israeli military facilities in Haifa and its suburbs.
More than 3,400 people have died in Israeli fires in Lebanon, 80% of them in the past eight weeks, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health. The Israeli military announced Friday that one soldier was killed in fighting in southern Lebanon.
By early November, Hezbollah attacks in northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights had killed more than 60 people in the nearly 13-month conflict. More people are injured.
Iran-backed Hezbollah has previously linked a ceasefire in the north to an end to Israeli military offensives in the Gaza Strip, but some analysts now believe Hezbollah could consider another deal. I think there is.
Lebanese officials said a copy of the draft proposal presented by the United States earlier this week was handed to Nabi Berri, the speaker of the Lebanese parliament negotiating on behalf of Hezbollah. The proposal is based on UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the last Israeli-Hezbollah war in 2006.
Report contributed by Reuters and Associated Press
