Gaza's civil defence agency reported at least 42 people killed in Israeli attacks, as the Israeli army prepared for a new assault on the Palestinian territory's largest city.
Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said there had been several air strikes around Gaza City - which the military is gearing up to capture - including one in the Al-Sabra neighbourhood that killed eight people.
Attacks were also reported elsewhere across the territory, he said, with the "total tally currently rising to 42 dead".
The army did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the figure.
"The situation is extremely dangerous... Each day, each minute, there are bombings, martyrs, death and blood - we can't take it anymore," Al-Sabra resident Ibrahim Al-Shurafa said, explaining strikes and shelling were ongoing.
"We don't know where to go. Death follows us everywhere," he added.
The October 2023 Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the war resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.
Israel's offensive has killed at least 62,686 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to figures from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza that the United Nations considers reliable.
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Strikes in Sanaa kill four
Israeli strikes in Yemen's capital Sanaa killed at least four people, according to the country's Iran-backed Huthi rebels, who have repeatedly launched missiles and drones at Israel throughout the Gaza war.
Images showed a large fireball lighting up the skies over the rebel-held capital, leaving behind a column of thick, black smoke.
A spokesperson for the Huthis' health ministry reported four people dead and 67 wounded in the Israeli raid, raising an earlier toll.
A Huthi security source said the strikes had targeted a building in central Sanaa. The group's Al-Masirah TV reported they had also hit an oil company facility and a power station in Sanaa's south already struck last Sunday.
The Israeli army said it had hit a military compound where the presidential palace is located, along with two power stations and a fuel depot.
The strikes were "in response to repeated attacks by the Huthi terrorist regime against the State of Israel and its civilians", including "in recent days", it said.
Late Friday, the Huthis fired a missile that Israeli authorities said had "most likely fragmented in mid-air".
Media outlets the Times of Israel and Ynet, citing the Israeli military, reported the missile had carried a cluster warhead, the first of its kind known to have been fired from Yemen.
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