Dozens of Palestinians were killed on Saturday following a number of overnight Israeli strikes targeting the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip as well as Gaza city and Rafah near the border with Egypt.
The worst-hit location was Nuseirat, where Israel targeted two family homes, killing at least 36 people, the Palestinian official news agency Wafa said.
Also on Saturday, a US charity said that its team in devastated Gaza had finished unloading the first maritime aid shipment to reach the enclave.
"All cargo was offloaded and is being readied for distribution in Gaza," World Central Kitchen said in a statement, noting that the aid was "almost 200 tonnes of food".
The group is preparing a second boat of 240 tonnes of food to set sail from Cyprus, the starting point of a new maritime aid route across the eastern Mediterranean.
The humanitarian effort is intended to ease severe food shortages, with UN agencies waring of an imminent famine in the territory, which has been targeted by an Israeli military campaign accompanied by a crippling siege for over five months.