The onslaught continues despite growing international pressure for a ceasefire, with Israel’s leader remaining defiant about the ongoing war.

Strikes in central and northern Gaza killed people in their homes in the early hours of Saturday morning, including nine from the same family in a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to staff at the Al-Awda hospital where the bodies were brought.

Five others were killed when a strike hit a tent for the displaced, Nasser Hospital officials said.

The director of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said medical teams there were concerned about Israeli “tanks approaching the vicinity of the hospital”, restricting access to the facility where 159 patients are being treated.

The attacks came hours after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told

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