At least 78 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on Monday as ceasefire talks falter amid a deepening fuel and hunger crisis, reports Al Jazeera.
Among them, according to a report of the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, at least five aid seekers were killed near an aid distribution point in Rafah in Southern Gaza.
The killings raised the death toll of Palestinians killed near aid sites run by the controversial Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to 838, according to Wafa.
In Khan Younis, also in southern Gaza, an Israeli strike on a displacement camp killed nine people and wounded many others.
In central Gaza's Bureij refugee camp, four people were killed when an Israeli air strike hit a commercial centre, Wafa said.
Israeli forces also resumed stepping up attacks in northern Gaza and Gaza City. Israeli media reported an ambush in Gaza City, with a tank hit by rocket fire and later, with small arms. A helicopter was seen evacuating casualties. The Israeli military later confirmed that three soldiers were killed in the incident.
Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, said Israeli forces responded with "massive air strikes in the vicinity of Tuffah and Shujayea neighbourhoods, levelling residential buildings".
The Wafa news agency said at least 24 Palestinians were killed in Gaza City and dozens more were wounded.
The attacks come as UN agencies continue to plead for more aid to be allowed into Gaza, where famine looms and a severe fuel shortage has brought the already battered healthcare sector to its knees.
'Nothing has changed'
Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Monday that the flow of aid into Gaza has not increased despite an agreement last week between Israel and the European Union that should have had that result.
"Nothing has changed [on the ground]," Badr Abdelatty told reporters ahead of the EU-Middle East meeting in Brussels.
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