Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed more than 20 people across the Palestinian territory on Friday.
It comes as the Israeli military presses its offensive against Hamas in Gaza City, from which hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee.
The civil defence agency 鈥� a rescue force operating under Hamas authority 鈥� reported at least 22 people killed since dawn across the territory, including 11 in Gaza City.
Israel鈥檚 military said in a statement Friday that the air force had over the past day 鈥榮truck over 140 targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including terrorists, tunnel shafts and military infrastructure鈥�.
AFP footage from the Al-Shati refugee camp near Gaza City showed heavy damage to buildings after an air strike.
Buildings stood with facades blown off by blasts, while people including a barefoot young girl searched through rubble for belongings. Toppled聽poles created a web of powerless electric wires on the ground.
Israel launched its ground offensive on the territory鈥檚 largest city on September 16. The military on Thursday said that 700,000 Palestinians had fled the urban hub聽 since late August.
The UN鈥檚 humanitarian agency, OCHA, said that the displacement of 3,88,400 people had been recorded since mid-August, most of them from Gaza City.
On the ground, Palestinians struggle to meet their basic needs after nearly two years of war that has left the territory devastated and bereft of basic goods.
鈥榃e just want the bare minimum to survive, and here in Al-Mawasi, we don鈥檛 even have that,鈥� said Khaled Abu Alba, a Palestinian from Gaza City who has been displaced to a designated humanitarian area in south Gaza.
鈥楨ven for water, we wait for hours just to get a single bucket,鈥� the 35-year-old added.
Um Youssef al-Shaer, 50, who is also displaced in Al-Mawasi after fleeing northern Gaza, said that the area had become overcrowded as more and more Palestinians sought refuge there.
鈥榃e are piled on top of each other in a single tent 鈥� me, my husband, our six children, and my husband鈥檚 elderly parents 鈥� 10 people in a small tent,鈥� she said.
鈥楾here鈥檚 no room to sleep in that cramped space. There鈥檚 no privacy.鈥�
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Friday in an angry UN address to block a Palestinian state, accusing European leaders of pushing his country into 鈥榥ational suicide鈥� and rewarding Hamas.
Netanyahu, in a defiant speech he said was partially broadcast on Israeli military loudspeakers in Gaza, vowed to 鈥榝inish the job鈥� against Hamas even as president Donald Trump said he thought he had sealed a deal on a ceasefire.
Trump said he believed that a deal had been struck to end the war on Gaza, following recent talks with Israel and Arab states.
鈥業 think we have a deal,鈥� Trump told reporters at the White House. 鈥業t鈥檚 looking like we have a deal on Gaza, I think it鈥檚 a deal that will get the hostages back, it鈥檚 going to be a deal that will end the war.鈥�
Over nearly two years,聽Israeli military operations in Gaza have killed at least 65,549 Palestinians, mostly civilians, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, figures the UN considers reliable.
Hamas鈥檚 October 7, 2023 attack on Israel that sparked the war resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.