Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said at least 241 people had been killed in the past 24 hours as Israel’s military operation continued in the territory.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called the war a “grave crime” against his people. Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi said the conflict with Hamas would continue “for many more months”.
Israel says it hit more than 100 sites on Tuesday, amid reports of impending ground operations in central Gaza.
Loud explosions could be heard from the Gaza Strip across the perimeter with Israel in the early hours of Wednesday.
In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian medical sources say six Palestinians were killed overnight in an Israeli drone strike in the Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem.
Gaza’s health ministry said 382 people were also injured in the same 24 hours. According to the ministry, at least 20,915 Palestinians have been killed – mostly children and women – in more than 11 weeks of fighting.
Drone footage shows Palestinians buried in the Rafah mass grave
About 80 unidentified Palestinian bodies were buried in a mass grave in Rafah, southern Gaza.
Sources in the Hamas-run health ministry told AFP they had been transported “from morgues and graves” to Israel so authorities could check there were no hostages among them.
They were later returned via the Kerem Shalom crossing in southern Gaza. The Israeli army had no comment.
