The Health Ministry said another 40 people were wounded in the strikes on the town of Beit Lahiya, where Israel said it carried out a strike on a Hamas target.

At least 87 people are dead or missing after Israeli strikes in the northern Gaza Strip overnight and into Sunday, its Health Ministry said. View on euronews

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has said at least 87 people were killed and more than 40 injured in Saturday's Israeli air strike on the city of Beit Lahiya in the north of the Palestinian enclave. The ministry said a number of people were still under the rubble after a residential area was hit.

Israeli strikes have killed at least 33 people including 21 women at a refugee camp in northern Gaza, the strip's Hamas-run authorities say. More than 85 people were said to be injured, some seriously, as homes belonging to three families in the camp were hit.

Palestinian officials say hundreds of people have been killed in Israel's two-week operation in northern Gaza, and that the health sector is close to collapse.

At least 87 people are dead or missing after Israeli strikes on multiple homes in the northern Gaza Strip overnight and into Sunday, the territory's Health Ministry said. It said another 40 people were wounded in the strikes on the town of Beit Lahiya,