Israel has carried out fresh air strikes on Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered retaliation for one of the heaviest barrages of rocket-fire by Hamas in months. The Israeli military said about half of the 10 rockets which were fired from Gaza late on Sunday landed inside Israel,

The Palestinian militant group said it fired a barrage of rockets at cities in Israel's south in response to Israeli "massacres" of civilians in Gaza.

An Israeli strike hit close to a charity kitchen in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis, killing at least seven people, including two women and one child, hospital officials said.

Israeli troops flattened farmland and cleared entire residential districts in Gaza to open a "kill zone" around the enclave, according to a report on Monday that quoted soldiers testifying about the harsh methods used in the operation.

Israel has killed a Palestinian journalist who it claims was “embedded” with Hamas during its rampage through southern Israel in the Oct 7 attacks.