Dozens of militants have been killed by Israeli forces during fighting in the Gaza Strip since Thursday, the Israeli military said on Friday.
The army destroyed what it said was terrorist infrastructure during fighting in the town of Khan Younis in the south of the coastal region and in the Deir al-Balah area further north.
The Israeli Air Force also fired on positions from which rockets were fired into Israel.
According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, several civilians have been killed by Israeli attacks.
In northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon, there were renewed gun battles between the army and the Islamist Hezbollah militia.
None of the information could be independently verified.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the war in Gaza, which began after Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7, has displaced approximately 90% of Gaza’s population.
About 2.2 million people live in the coastal strip, many of whom have been displaced multiple times, according to the UN.
Meanwhile, ceasefire mediation efforts continue in Cairo. According to media reports, the main bone of contention is Hamas’ demand for a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects this.
UN representatives have called for a ceasefire so that health workers can at least vaccinate the hundreds of thousands of children in the war zone against polio.
The charity Save the Children warned on Thursday that if the polio outbreak in Gaza is not tackled it will undermine global efforts to eradicate the disease.
