Israel carried out bombardments in Gaza on Sunday as international calls mounted for greater protection of civilians and the renewal of an expired truce with Hamas.
The Israeli army said it has conducted more than 400 strikes in Gaza since a ceasefire collapsed on Friday
. United States Vice President Kamala Harris sharply rebuked on Saturday the rising civilian toll in Israel's eight-week war, which was sparked by an unprecedented attack on October 7.
"Too many innocent Palestinians have been killed," she told reporters at UN climate talks in Dubai.
"Frankly, the scale of civilian suffering and the images and videos coming from Gaza are devastating."
According to the United Nations, an estimated 1.7 million people in Gaza -- more than two-thirds of the population -- have been displaced by eight weeks of war. Fadel Naim, chief doctor at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, said his morgue had received 30 bodies on Saturday, including seven children.
"The planes bombed our houses: three bombs, three houses destroyed," Nemr al-Bel, 43, told AFP, adding he had counted 10 dead in his family and "13 more still under the rubble".
Gazans are short of food, water, and other essentials, and many homes have been destroyed. UN agencies have declared a humanitarian catastrophe, although some aid trucks did arrive Saturday. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said Israel had told NGOs not to bring aid convoys across the Rafah border crossing from Egypt after the truce expired. But on Saturday, the charity said its Egyptian colleagues had managed to send over several trucks.
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