Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 103 people overnight and into Sunday, hospitals and medics said, and prompted the main hospital in northern Gaza to close as Israel intensifies its war in the territory that,

Forty-eight people were killed, including at least seven children, in Israeli airstrikes on school compounds sheltering thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza, hospital officials said.

Hospitals and medics in the Gaza Strip say Israeli strikes across the Palestinian enclave killed at least 75 people.

Israel says its military pressure campaign is the only way to defeat Hamas and bring home the living hostages and the bodies of dead captives still being held in Gaza. They were captured during the Hamas-led attack in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people, according to the Israeli government.

Israeli troops killed four Palestinians during a military raid in Tammun, northeast West Bank, on Thursday, according to Palestinian security sources.

Israel intensified its offensive in Gaza, with the strikes across the enclave killing at least 103 people overnight and into Sunday.

The Israeli military is yet to comment but local residents say the assault began with smoke bomb barrages, followed by intense artillery shelling.

At least 55 bodies have been recovered by rescue teams in Gaza, following the latest Israeli airstrikes, Palestinian authorities reported on Friday. Dozens remain trapped under rubble, a spokesman for the Hamas-controlled civil defence said.

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Friday that 50 people had been killed in Israeli strikes on the Palestinian territory since midnight. “The number of martyrs killed in Israeli shelling targeting civilian homes in the northern Gaza Strip between midnight and early this morning has risen to

An Associated Press cameraman in Khan Younis counted 10 airstrikes on the city overnight into Thursday, and saw numerous bodies taken to the morgue in the city’s Nasser Hospital.