The IDF carries out a series of strikes in Gaza, killing 123 people over the last day, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.
The 24-hour death toll was the worst in a week.
Israeli planes and tanks bombed eastern areas of Gaza City heavily, residents say, with many homes destroyed in the Zeitoun and Shejaiya neighborhoods overnight. Al-Ahli hospital says 12 people were killed in an airstrike on a home in Zeitoun.
Tanks also destroyed several houses in the east of Khan Younis in south Gaza too, while in the center Israeli gunfire killed nine aid-seekers in two separate incidents, Palestinian medics say. The IDF did not comment.
Eight more people, including three children, have died of starvation and malnutrition in Gaza in the past 24 hours, the Gazan health ministry says.
Israel disputes the malnutrition and hunger figures reported by the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave.
The death toll figures also are not verified.
Israel says it avoids trying to harm civilians, but notes that Hamas is using tunnels under civilian areas and is deeply embedded in homes, hospitals, schools and mosques.
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