Hospital officials in the northern Gaza Strip said Israeli airstrikes overnight killed many people.
Gaza rescue teams said search operations began in the early morning after Israel bombed at least five buildings in Beit Lahia and Gaza City.
Hamas-affiliated media said dozens of people were killed and many, including women and children, were still buried under the rubble.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. Recently, it strengthened its offensive in the northern Gaza Strip, saying it was preventing Hamas from regrouping.
Parts of the northern Gaza Strip are under siege from Israel. Virtually no humanitarian aid has been delivered over the past 40 days.The UN warned earlier.
Medical staff in Gaza are struggling to treat the injured and aid groups say they are unable to deliver essential supplies to the area.
Earlier this week, Israeli airstrikes killed at least 34 people. The local Civil Defense Department said it occurred in a five-storey residential block in Beit Lahia.
AFP reported that many of the dead were women and children.
Israel’s ground offensive in northern Gaza has left up to 130,000 people homeless over the past five weeks.
The United Nations said 75,000 people remained under siege in the towns of Beit Lahia, Jabalia and Beit Hanoun, with water and food supplies dwindling.
A Human Rights Watch report last week said Israel committed war crimes and crimes against humanity by deliberately causing the mass exodus of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
According to the United Nations, approximately 1.9 million people, or 90% of the Gaza Strip’s population, have fled their homes in the past year, and 79% of Gaza is under evacuation orders issued by Israel.
Israel launched a campaign to destroy Hamas on October 7, 2023, in response to its unprecedented attacks on southern Israel. The attack left approximately 1,200 people dead and 251 taken hostage.
Since then, nearly 44,000 people have died and more than 104,000 have been injured in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
On Wednesday The United States blocked the draft Gaza Strip ceasefire resolution at the UN Security Council. – This is the fourth time the veto has been used to protect our ally Israel during a conflict.
Fourteen of the 15 members of parliament voted in favor of the draft bill, which calls for the war in Gaza to “end immediately, unconditionally and permanently, and for the immediate and unconditional release of all remaining hostages.”
Robert Wood, the U.S. deputy ambassador to the United Nations, said the document “gave up” the need for there to be “a link between the ceasefire and the release of the hostages.”
Wood said the proposed resolution would have sent a “dangerous message” to Hamas.
In a separate development American mediator Amos Hochstein arrives in Israel. From Beirut.
He said he sees a “real opportunity” to end the conflict in Lebanon after the Lebanese government and Hezbollah largely agreed to a U.S. ceasefire proposal.
