An Israeli air strike is reported to have killed dozens of people at Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said 50 people were killed and 150 wounded. But a nearby hospital said it received 400 casualties, including 120 dead.
Pictures showed several large craters, surrounded by shattered buildings.
The Israeli military said the strike killed a senior Hamas commander and "underground terror infrastructure" beneath buildings collapsed afterwards.
It added that a "large number of terrorists" from Hamas's Central Jabalia Battalion who had been with the commander at the time were also killed.
Israeli tanks and troops, meanwhile, continued to advance towards some of northern Gaza's most populated areas, including Jabalia.
Israel has said it is the "second phase" of its war to eliminate Hamas, which began after an unprecedented cross-border attack by gunmen from Gaza on 7 October in which 1,400 people were killed and another 240 taken hostage.
Gaza's health ministry says more than 8,500 people have been killed in the territory since then, while supplies of food, water, fuel and medicine for its 2.2 million residents are dangerously low because of a siege imposed by Israel.
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire and urged all sides to respect international humanitarian law. He said: “I condemn the killing of civilians in Gaza and I am dismayed by reports that two-thirds of those who have been killed are women and children.”
Bombardments have killed at least 8,525 Palestinians, including 3,542 children, according to Hamas health ministry figures issued before the strikes on Jabalia.
“The numbers are appalling,” said a Unicef spokesperson, James Elder. “Gaza has become a graveyard for thousands of children. It’s a living hell for everyone else.” Without a ceasefire and greater humanitarian access into the Gaza Strip “we hurtle towards even greater horrors afflicting innocent children”, said Elder.
A number of martyrs and dozens of wounded, as the Israeli occupation warplanes targeted the Masoud family’s house on Al-Yafiya Street in the middle of the Jabalia camp.
A Palestinian father screaming in agony: “I lost my three children”.
Israel has completely demolished the most densely populated area of the Jabalya refugee camp, using six one-ton American bombs. This is a Jabalia massacre.
A number of casualties arrived in a crime carried out by the Israeli occupation targeting the crowded and dilapidated Jabalia camp.
Palestinian children are the Israeli LIST of TARGETS.
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