Palestinian health authorities say at least 91 people have been killed in the third day of air strikes across Gaza, as Hamas launched rockets at Tel Aviv for the first time since the ceasefire was shattered by Israel on Tuesday.
The bombardment occurred across the war-ravaged strip, with communities in the north and the south targeted in the latest wave of attacks.
Hospitals were inundated with the dead and the injured, and the United Nation's Palestinian aid agency UNRWA said five of its staff were among those killed.
Israel's air campaign coincided with a ground operation in northern Gaza, with Israeli troops moving into areas around Beit Lahiya and further into the Netzarim corridor — a strip of land stretching from the Israel border to the Mediterranean, cutting northern Gaza off from the rest of the territory.
Soldiers have also moved in to areas around Rafah in southern Gaza.
The Israel Defense Forces had withdrawn from the corridor in early February, as part of the former ceasefire deal with Hamas.
In response, Hamas fired three rockets north towards Tel Aviv — one was intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome air defence system, while two others landed in "open areas" according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
In the early hours of Thursday morning, local time, warning sirens woke millions from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as a missile fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen was detected.
Another missile was fired and intercepted on Thursday night.
The Houthis have promised to continue attacks Israel in solidarity with Hamas, despite coming under attack from US forces in recent days.
Tens of thousands displaced in Gaza
The IDF has issued sweeping evacuation orders across the Gaza strip, displacing tens of thousands of Palestinians and saying they are now in "combat zones."
Among those fleeing was 45 year old Abeer Mohammed Adwane from Beit Hanoun, in Gaza's north.
"We are so tired. Give us a break. For God's sake. If you have a faith, leave us alone, if you don't then with several airstrikes get rid of us all so we can rest," she told the ABC.
"I am evacuating by foot. I have no money, not a shekel.
"I am walking with my daughter, it costs 500 shekels ($216 AUD) to go to Gaza City, what a shame."
Ms Adwane's desperation was clear, as she said she had been forced to move 30 times during the war.
"Let them finish us, let the war stop that way," she said.
"We are so tired, I wish we could die — let us all die, I wish I can die with my children and it will be over."
Hamas has criticised Israel's strikes across Gaza.
"Criminal attacks target safe houses, tents for the displaced, and shelters are escalating, amid merciless destruction and fires that do not differentiate between children and the elderly, mothers and infants," Hamas' Izzat Al-Rishq said.
The Israeli government rejected claims it had been indiscriminately attacking the strip.
"We target terrorists, not civilians," Israeli government's spokesperson David Mencer said.
"Every innocent life lost is on Hamas's account, every innocent life lost is Hamas's doing.
"To the people of Gaza, we say very clearly, stay away from Hamas, move to safer areas."
Palestinian children bearing the brunt
Humanitarians warned the impact on Gaza's children was devastating.
"183 children among the hundreds and hundreds of people killed — that number should shock the world, it should prompt action," UNICEF's Rosalia Bollen told the ABC from Gaza.
She said the toll on Palestinian children who have so far survived the strikes was serious.
"It's even more nerve wracking for children who've been through 15 long months of relentless bombings and very toxic stress, and now all of that trauma is rapidly being reactivated," Ms Bollen said.
"We estimate that every child in Gaza today needs mental health and psychosocial support because of the state of permanent stress and anxiety that they've been in.
"The kids that I've been speaking to these past six months, they frequently talk about death — they say that they're afraid of dying, they're very afraid that their parents die and that they'll be on their own."
While speaking to the ABC, there was an explosion near to where Ms Bollen and her colleagues were sheltering.
"That's an airstrike, that's a bomb just dropping in the vicinity of where I am," she said.
Police use water cannon on protesters outside Netanyahu's house
Israeli police have targeted protesters camped outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Jerusalem home, using water cannon to try to disperse the crowds.
Vision from the suburb of Rehavia showed demonstrators pushing over metal barricades.
Among the group caught up in the melee was left-wing opposition politician Yair Golan.
The day before thousands more had marched from the Israeli Parliament to Mr Netanyahu's home, accusing him of war mongering and jeopardising the lives of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza.
There are 59 hostages still held by Hamas, 24 believed to still be alive.
One captive recently released, Eli Sharabi spoke at the United Nations in New York about his experience held hostage.
"For 491 days. I was kept underground in Hamas terror tunnels — chained, starved, beaten, humiliated," he said.
"The chains they kept me in tore into my skin from them, from the moment I entered until the moment I was released.
"I was given almost no food, no water, and no mercy. I was treated worse than [an] animal."
Mr Sharabi's wife and two daughters were murdered by Hamas during the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel.
"I will stand before the United Nations Security Council to say this: no more excuses, no more delays, no more moral blindness," he said.
"You cannot claim to stand for humanity and abandon those who are still in hell.
"I say now to every state, to every person in a position of power, to every person who has listened to me today: Bring them all home now."
