"About 18 people were killed and dozens of others wounded in the al-Shati refugee camp after Israeli warplanes struck a residential intersection," Palestinian medical sources told Xinhua news agency on Saturday.

Medical sources said the number of victims was likely to rise as civil defense teams were still trying to pull victims out of the debris, adding that the residential intersection had been reduced to "large amounts of ruins."

Palestinian security sources said Israeli warplanes carried out multiple strikes on the al-Shati refugee camp, destroying seven inhabited houses, Xinhua news agency reported.

At least 24 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed during Israeli air strikes on homes in the al-Tafa neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City, on Saturday, the Hamas-run state media office said in a press statement.

The Israeli military said in a press statement on Saturday that its warplanes had struck two Hamas military infrastructure sites in Gaza City.

According to the Times of Israel, the Israeli army targeted senior Hamas commander Raed Saad in Gaza. There has been no official Palestinian confirmation of his death yet.

Saad, identified as the head of Hamas operations, was reportedly believed to have been in Gaza City's al-Shifa hospital during the Israeli raid in March, although he was not found there at the time.

Israel launched a large-scale offensive on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, after Hamas launched military attacks on Israeli cities near the Strip, killing about 1,200 people and capturing about 250 others.

As of Thursday, the Palestinian death toll from Israeli military operations has risen to 37,431, while 85,653 others have been injured, health officials in Gaza said in a press statement.