Gaza's civil defence agency said that an overnight Israeli air strike hit a house in Gaza City where displaced Palestinians had taken refuge, killing 11 people, including women and children.
"We have recovered the bodies of 11 martyrs, including four children and three women, after an Israeli warplane hit a three-storey house of the Bustan family," Mahmud Bassal, spokesperson for the agency, said.
He said the strike took place at around 1am local time and that the house was located near the Shujaiya school in the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood of eastern Gaza City.
"Several families had taken refuge in the house targeted with a single missile without any prior warning," Mr Bassal said, adding that many others were wounded.
In an earlier statement, Mr Bassal said rescuers were continuing to search for the missing.
The Israeli military said its forces had carried out a strike in the area overnight.
"The IDF struck the commander of a Hamas terrorist cell in the area of Daraj Tuffah, who was involved in the planning and execution of terrorist activities against IDF troops and the state of Israel," the military said in a statement to AFP.
"The IDF is aware of claims that several civilians were killed as a result of the strike," it added.
Mr Bassal said Israeli forces carried out similar strikes in other parts of the Hamas-run territory overnight, killing at least 10 people.
He said that five people were killed in northwestern Gaza City when an air strike hit a group of people near the Dar Al-Arqam school.
He added that three others were killed in a strike in the Al-Mawasi area of southern Khan Younis, where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge.
The war in Gaza broke out after the 7 October attack by Hamas on southern Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Militants also seized 251 captives during the attack, 97 of whom are still held in Gaza, including 33 the Israeli military says are dead.
Israel's retaliatory military campaign has killed at least 41,182 people in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry, which does not provide breakdowns of civilian and militant deaths.
'Difficult to implement'
Tánaiste Michéal Martin said he would favour a bill that would ban the sale of goods made on illegal settlements in the West Bank to Ireland.
But he said there are "realities on the ground that would make that difficult to implement".
Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Colm Ó Mongáin programme, Mr Martin said the competency for trade was the European Union.
He said legal advice within his department suggests the International Court of Justice advisory opinion places obligations on Ireland and member states not to support the illegal occupation of Palestine.
"And that does have implications, in my view, for aspects of that trading relationship," he said.
The Tánaiste said this creates tension between the ICJ advisory opinion and EU trading policy.
