Strikes on the Gaza Strip continued, killing 56 people while Benyamin Netanyahu authorised a delegation to continue negotiations in Qatar for a ceasefire.View on euronews

An Israeli strike killed at least 11 Palestinians overnight, including the director general of Gaza police and a deputy, in Al-Mawasi, southern Gaza, local officials said Thursday.

Palestinian and hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes killed at least 18 people in the Gaza Strip, including three children and two high-ranking officers in the Hamas-run police force.

Israel killed at least 71 more Palestinians in a series of attacks across Gaza in the last 24 hours. Israeli forces carried out “horrific crimes”, carrying out 34 airstrikes across the besieged territory, Al Jazeera quoted local officials as saying. It was one of the bloodiest days of Israel’s war on Gaza in recent weeks.

Gaza is a territory spanning 25 miles at its longest point, where the displaced are sheltering in tents on the beach.

On New Year’s day, an Israeli attack killed at least 26 Palestinians and on the next day, multiple airstrikes by Israeli forces killed 50 people across Gaza.

More than 40 Palestinians have been killed in 15 Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip, according to the territory's Hamas-run Civil Defence service. The chief of Gaza's police force and his deputy were among 11 killed in an overnight attack on a tent camp for displaced families in the southern al-Mawasi "humanitarian zone", it said.

Israel carried out air strikes on dozens of Hamas targets in Gaza over the past 24 hours, it said on Friday, in attacks that Palestinian health authorities said had killed nearly 100 people. The surge in operations and casualties comes amid a renewed push to reach a ceasefire agreement before U.