Early on Saturday, Palestinian fighters fired rockets from Gaza towards Israel in response to attacks by Israeli aircrafts on the fifth day of aggression on the coastal enclave.
The violence also spilled onto the occupied West Bank, where two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid on the outskirts of Nablus.
A new ceasefire proposal was circulated late on Friday by Egypt, which has been mediating between the two sides after a previous bid fell through, a Palestinian source has said.
A Palestinian official familiar with the truce talks described them as "complicated" and "tough" but confirmed that Cairo was pressing ahead with its efforts.
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Israeli bombardment on Beit Hanoun and Rafah injures three Palestinians
At least three Palestinians were injured - one in a serious condition - by Israeli airstrikes this evening targeting Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip and Rafah in the south.
Two people were injured by shrapnel from a missile that targeted a land near the Hamouda in Beit Hanoun.
A young man, who was riding a bicycle, was injured by a missile fired by an Israeli drone in Rafah. He was rushed to the Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital for treatment.
Israeli warplanes continued this evening launching strikes on the besieged Gaza, targeting buildings and agricultural lands across the strip.
Hundreds displaced by Israeli bombardment: Palestinian ministry ministry
Almost 800 Palestinians have been displaced by the Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip, which began on Tuesday.
According to the Ministry of Social Development in the besieged coastal enclave, 784 people have been internally displaced.
Fatima Bashir's family had a few minutes warning before an Israeli air strike destroyed their home in the Deir Al-Balah area of Gaza for the second time in a decade, leaving only a mass of rubble, broken furniture and scattered household items.
Shortly before the strike, smaller projectiles hit the house.
"We heard a noise. Our neighbours were shouting, 'Get out of the house! Evacuate the house!', so we ran away, into the street," she said. "We got nothing out."
In 2014, during a previous round of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza, the Bashir's home was also hit.
"They destroyed our homes before and we rebuilt it, and this time we will rebuild it too," she added.
Israeli warplanes destroy home of family with disabled children
Israeli airstrikes destroyed the house of a family with special needs children in Jabalia, north of Gaza.
The Instagram account of Eye on Palestine shared a video from the scene showing the family sitting on the rubble of their destroyed home.
At least five Palestinians, including three children, were injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes today, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
Israeli warplanes attacked an agricultural land with missiles in the Al-Khezendar area, north of the Strip, injuring two Palestinians.
The two were rushed to the nearby Indonesian Hospital for medical treatment, and their condition was described as stable.
In Rafah, south of the enclave, three children were injured from shrapnel in an Israeli airstrike which targeted the vicinity of their home.
The condition of one of the three children was described as critical, and the child had one of his limbs amputated as a result of his critical injury, medical sources told Wafa.
Israeli warplanes also attacked an agricultural land in the Al-Shawka neighbourhood in Rafah.
Israeli warplanes attacked today a building in the town of Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, bringing the number of destroyed residential buildings to more than 20 since the start of the aggression five days ago.
Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that an Israeli drone fired two missiles before an F-16 warplane fired a missile at the building completely destroying it and causing severe damage to neighbouring homes and properties.
Warplanes earlier targeted a house in the town of Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, with at least one missile, causing severe damage to it and the nearby homes as the occupation warplanes continue to bomb homes, buildings, and apartments since the start of the aggression on Gaza on Tuesday.
Nabil Abu Rudeineh, the official spokesman for the presidency, said today that the Israeli forces and the US are responsible for the deterioration on the ground in the occupied territories.
Abu Rudeineh stressed that Israel has "crossed all red lines" by continuing with its policies of killings and incursions into the Palestinian cities, villages and refugee camps - the latest of which was the assault on Balata camp in Nablus this morning that led to the death of two young men and the wounding of others - as well as the continuous aggression for the fifth consecutive day against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Abu Rudeineh held the Israeli occupation government responsible for these serious crimes committed against all the Palestinian territories, which, he warned, will have great repercussions on the stability of the entire region.
He said that the US administration also bears responsibility for the deterioration of the situation as a result of its silence toward the Israeli aggression and failure to immediately intervene to stop them.
Palestinian foreign ministry urges reopening of Gaza crossings
The Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs and expatriates has called for a firm international stand to stop Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip and to reopen the crossings to allow entry of medical and food supplies, fuel, and other life essentials.
In a statement, the ministry said that the Israeli government’s refusal to allow entry of assistance and medical and food supplies into the besieged Gaza Strip was a blatant violation of international law, the Geneva Convention, and international humanitarian law.
The Israeli army announced in a statement on Saturday, that the Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip fired 1,099 rockets towards Israeli territory, 340 of which were intercepted.
Until 08:00 Saturday morning local time (05:00 GMT), the Palestinian factions fired "1099 rockets towards Israel, 865 of which crossed the border, and 340 of them were intercepted," according to the same source.
Since the launch of its military operation against the Gaza Strip - dubbed "Shield and Arrow", the Israeli army said it had attacked 325 targets.
Early on Saturday, Palestinian fighters in Gaza fired rockets into Israel in response to heavy selling by Israeli aircraft.
Israel alleged it struck Islamic Jihad command centres in its pre-dawn shelling on the densely-populated enclave.
Grainy black and white aerial footage it released showed explosions and clouds of smoke rising from bombed buildings.
In response, Gaza fighters fired rockets, setting off sirens. There were no reports of casualties on the Israeli side.
Israeli strikes kill Islamic Jihad leader
Iyad al-Hasani, a senior leader of the Islamic Jihad was killed in the latest Israeli air strike on an apartment in the Gaza Strip on Friday.
Al-Hasani was a member of the Islamic Jihad’s top military council. He was the sixth council member to be killed by Israel this week. Hasani's aide was also killed in the strike.
"Saraya al-Quds mourns its great commander martyr, Iyad al-Abd al-Husseini, known as Abu Anas, a member of the military council and the operations unit leader in Saraya al-Quds, who was killed in a cowardly Zionist assassination operation this evening in Gaza,” Islamic Jihad said in a statement.
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