The Israeli military said its forces launched air, land and sea attacks against more than 100 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, as regional tensions rose.
The Health Ministry in the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory said 125 people were killed and 318 injured over a 24-hour period.
An Israeli strike razed a house in an area of southern Gaza that the army had declared a safe zone, killing at least 12 people, most of them children, Palestinian hospital officials said.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said military operations in southern Gaza, which in the past included bombings of refugee camps and “safe zones,” would continue.
The Israeli military operation has driven more than 85 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents from their homes, razed much of northern Gaza and pushed already displaced Palestinians into smaller portions of territory where they There is no security, no food, no water, no medicine.
At least 22,438 people have been killed and 57,614 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, when the current conflict erupted.