Within the past 24 hours, about 30 Palestinians have been killed in Jabalia town and Jabalia refugee camp, with dozens more wounded, Wafa reported.
The Palestinian news agency reported that Israeli army air raids killed eight civilians in residential homes in Rafah. Israeli air raids have killed another six civilians in Khan Younis, according to local sources.
Meanwhile, rescue and ambulance crews retrieved nine bodies in Jabalia town, including a mother and her five daughters following the Israeli bombing, Al Jazeera reported.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza says that 390 Palestinians have been killed and another 734 people have been injured in the past 48 hours while communications were suspended, Al Jazeera reported.
Israel bombed a newly reopened aid crossing point, hours before the United Nations Security Council was to make another attempt to pass a much-delayed resolution on pausing the Gaza fighting.
The United Nations human rights office in Ramallah said it had received reports that Israeli troops had “summarily killed” at least 11 unarmed Palestinian men and then ushered women and children into a room and threw grenades in Gaza City’s Rimal neighbourhood this week
The UN estimates 1.9 million Gazans are displaced, out of a population of 2.4 million.
With their homes destroyed, they are living in crowded shelters and struggling to find food, fuel, water and medical supplies. Diseases are spreading, and communications have been repeatedly cut.
On Thursday a UN monitoring system said every single person in Gaza is expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity in the next six weeks.
Vowing to destroy Hamas, Israel began a relentless bombardment of targets in Gaza, alongside a ground invasion, which Gaza’s government on Wednesday said has killed at least 20,000, mostly women and children.
According to the UN, the number of aid trucks entering Gaza is well below the daily pre-war average.
After weeks of pressure, Israel approved the temporary reopening of the Kerem Shalom crossing on Friday to enable aid deliveries directly to Gaza, rather than through the Rafah crossing from Egypt.
On Thursday an Israeli strike killed Bassem Ghaben, the head of the Palestinian side of Kerem Shalom, the crossings authority and the health ministry said.
Three other people were also killed when Israeli aircraft targeted the infrastructure, they said.
Israeli officials did not immediately respond to requests from AFP for comment.
