Israel says it is checking reports of casualties but accused Hamas officials of sharing "exaggerated" figures.

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.

The Israeli military said on Friday it sent another army unit to support its forces operating in Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps, where residents said tanks blew up roads and houses as they thrust further into the territory.

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.

Israel’s government said a drone targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s house Saturday, with no casualties, as fighting with

Israel says a drone targeted Netanyahu's home. Iran’s supreme leader vows Hamas will continue fighting, and Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 50.

An Israeli airstrike that hit several houses and a multi-storey residential building in Beit Lahiya town in northern Gaza on Saturday caused dozens of casualties, doctors and officials said, with rescue operations still underway.

Israeli military strikes killed at least 32 people across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinian health officials said, as forces tightened a siege around hospitals in Jabalia in the north of the enclave.