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.

Some 464 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military strikes on Gaza in the past week, according to a report published by the territory's health

Nearly 100 people, including children, have been killed in a large-scale Israeli ground, air and sea attack launched early Friday in north Gaza, the Hamas-run civil defence and residents have said.

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.

At least 48 Palestinians were killed Tuesday in renewed Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, according to medics.​​​​​​​

The Israeli airstrikes killed more than 48 people near the southern city of Khan Younis, hitting houses and tents of the displaced people, Associated Press reported.

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

A hospital in southern Gaza says 54 people have been killed in overnight airstrikes on the city of Khan Younis.

Israel has begun its expansion of its ground offensive in the war-ravaged strip, as Palestinian health authorities say more than 460 people have been killed in the last week.

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