The Israeli military kept up the pressure on northern Gaza on Wednesday, striking in a suburb of Gaza City, medics said, and told residents in a central part of the enclave to evacuate from an area where militants were firing rockets.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 21 people, including at least two children, on Saturday in Gaza, hospital staff said, while a new effort at ceasefire talks was underway in Qatar after nearly 15 months of war.

Israel and Hamas wrangled on Sunday over the details of a deal to halt fighting in the Gaza Strip and return hostages home, as Palestinian officials said intensified Israeli bombardments had killed more than 100 people over the weekend.

The Israeli military reported three rockets targetinh its territory on Friday from the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian rescuers said Israeli air strikes killed at least 16 people, including children. Three children were killed in Israeli shelling in Gaza City's Zietun neighbourhood,

Hospital staff in southern Gaza say the latest Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 21 people. Hamas releases a hostage video of an Israeli soldier.

At least 13 people died in strikes across the Gaza Strip in the early hours of 2025, local health and civil defense officials said.

Israel says it has carried out air strikes on dozens of Hamas targets in Gaza over the past 24 hours, in attacks that Palestinian health authorities said had killed nearly 100 people.

Israel struck a declared humanitarian zone in southern Gaza overnight, which rescuers on Thursday said killed the head of the Palestinian territory's Hamas-run police force, his deputy and nine others.

Israel warned Wednesday that it will intensify its strikes in Gaza if Hamas keeps up its rocket fire, as Palestinian rescuers reported dozens of deaths from Israeli strikes on the first day of the New Year.