Gaza correspondent
At least 103 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip since dawn, according to a civil defense agency run by Hamas.
Local Nasser Hospital said 56 people, including women and children, were killed when houses and tents in the southern city of Khan Younis were blown up. Local journalists said its corridor was full of casualties and its morgue was full.
A spokesman for the Civil Defense later reported a deadly strike in the northern town of Jabalia, which included an attack on a health clinic and prayer hall in Jabalia refugee camp, which he said killed 13 people.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment.
However, it has been intensifying what it calls bombing, which is before Hamas fighters and infrastructure are planned to expand its ground offensive in Gaza.
With U.S. President Donald Trump visiting the region and indirect negotiations on a new ceasefire and hostage release agreement between Hamas and Israel.
The streets of Khan Younis were filled with funeral parades and sad families Thursday morning after residents said it was the deadliest air strike in the city, since Israel resumed its offensive about two months ago.
A video shared by a local activist shows medical staff laying dozens of bodies on the ground of a local cemetery. An imam stood nearby, gathering for hundreds of mourners near prayers behind him.
Other videos show the man carrying the bodies of two children wrapped in a blood shroud outside Nasser Hospital, and a list of names of 56 medical staff who said they were killed was published.
Safaa al-Bayouk, a 42-year-old mother, said the children were her son Muath, who was only six weeks old and Moataz, a year and four months old.
"I gave them dinner and they went to bed. It was a normal day... (and then) the world turned upside down."
Reem al-Zanaty, 13, said her uncle's family, including her 12-year-old cousin Menna, was killed when two of their homes were bombed.
"We didn't feel anything until we woke up," she said. "Civil defense didn't come. I'll tell you honestly that we pulled ourselves away (my out). My dad helped us."
Medical staff also said Hassan Samour, a local journalist who works at Hamas-Aqsa Radio, was killed along with his 11 members when they were killed at their home near East Bani Suheila.
Civil Defense Agency also said Thursday morning that its first responders recovered the bodies of four people after strikes in northern Israel's northern Israel and the central town of Deir Al-Balah.
Later, spokesman Mahmoud Bassal reported that Israel strikes in a house in the town of Jabbaria to kill all five members of the Shiite family.
He said 13 other people were killed when the Al-Tawbah health clinic and prayer hall in the Al-Fakhouri area of Jabbaria refugee camp were blown up.
The Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that 15 people were killed, including 11 children.
Graphic video released online on the site allegedly showed two bodies covered in a street next to a heavily damaged building.
"Tank shells are eye-catching all the time, and the area is full of people and tents," Amir Selha, a 43-year-old resident in northern Gaza, told AFP.
According to hospitals and civil defense instructions, an Israeli strike killed at least 80 people across the territory on Wednesday, including 59 in the town of Jabbaria and refugee camps.
The Israeli military said it attacked Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihadists in the northern part of the territory Tuesday night. It warned Jabbaria and residents in neighboring areas to evacuate Tuesday after the rocket was launched into Israel.
The Israeli evacuation order issued Wednesday afternoon also caused panic among residents in crowded areas of northern Gaza.
The Israeli military said a hospital, a university and several schools shelter displaced people in marginal communities have become "terrorist strongholds" and will soon attack them with "hard forces."
Additionally, a U.S.-backed organization said it would begin working in Gaza within two weeks, a new criticism of the United States--part of an Israeli aid distribution program.
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said it had asked Israel to restore delivery to the United Nations and others until it was established.
Israel did not allow any aid or other supplies in Gaza for 10 weeks and warned of mass hunger among the 2.1 million people.
Israel imposed a lockdown on March 2 and resumed its offensive against Hamas two weeks later, ending a two-month ceasefire. It said it wanted to put pressure on Hamas to release its remaining 58 hostages, as many as 23 of whom were believed to be alive.
Israel launched a military campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group's cross-border attack on October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and another 251 were taken hostage.
According to the Hamas-Operation Ministry of Operations in the region, at least 53,010 people have been killed in Gaza since the recovery of the Israeli offensive, including 2,876.