Palestinian health officials said telecoms and internet services were down for a second day, hampering rescue operations.

At least 22 people have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli air strike on a UN-run school sheltering displaced families in northern Gaza, local medics and the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency say.

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said at least 87 people were killed and more than 40 injured in Saturday's Israeli air strike on the city of Beit Lahiya in the north of the Palestinian enclave. The ministry said a number of people were still under the rubble after a residential area was hit.

An Israeli air strike has hit a UN school in Jabalia in northern Gaza, killing “scores of people” including children who were sheltering there, Philippe Lazzarini, head of UNRWA — the UN agency for Palestinians — said on X on Friday.

An attack on a Christian village that killed 23 has left residents shaken as Israel widens its target scope across Lebanon

Israel continues to hammer northern Gaza despite U.S. hopes that the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar could be a turning point in the year-old conflict.

Israel’s military intensified operations there just days after Biden suggested the death of Hamas’s leader could usher in an end to the ruinous war.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says 87 people are dead or missing after Israeli strikes on multiple homes in northern Gaza