Siege of Gaza City

Gaza's civil defense agency reported on Sunday that 30 people, including 13 children, were killed in two Israeli strikes on houses in the northern part of the Palestinian territory.

The first strike early Sunday hit a house in Jabalia in northern Gaza, killing "at least 25" people, including 13 children, and injuring more than 30, according to the civil defense agency.

Palestinians make their way over the dirty of rubble, past destroyed buildings after the Israeli military withdrew following a two-week offensive from the Shujaiya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City on July 11, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant Hamas group.

Israeli tank columns have entered Gaza City from multiple directions, marking one of the fiercest attacks since October 7, according to local residents and Reuters reports.

Israel carried out deadly airstrikes in Gaza Saturday, including one on a U.N.-run school that killed 16 people according to the Hamas-run authorities, and as violence also gripped its northern border with Lebanon.

Smoke billows from an area targeted by Israeli bombardment in the Gaza City district of Shujaiya on June 28, 2024.

Heavy battles and bombardment hit Gaza City's Shujaiya district for a fourth day on Sunday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged his forces were engaged in a "difficult fight".

People walk towards a devastated building at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.

Israeli forces struck Gaza and battled Hamas militants on Friday as truce efforts failed to make progress and tensions surged on Israel's northern border with Lebanon.

Witnesses reported strikes on the southern city of Rafah and central areas of the Gaza Strip.

An Israeli strike killed 31 people in central Gaza Sunday, the Palestinian territory's civil defense agency said, as U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan visited for talks on the conflict.

Intense clashes are taking place in a refugee camp in northern Gaza. According to Reuters, this marks the most severe fighting between the Israeli army and Hamas fighters since Israeli forces re-entered the area about a week ago.

Fighting raged Friday in Gaza after Israel vowed to intensify its ground offensive in Rafah despite international concerns for the hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in the southern city.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has emphasized the critical importance of the battle for Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip for Israel, which has been engaged in a war against Hamas for over seven months.