Strikes described as the most severe of conflict so far, with some landing near airport amid foreign evacuation flights; Israeli military says mosque used as Hamas command centre.   05:35 Gaza’s civil defence agency says an Israeli strike on a mosque-turned-shelter in central Deir al-Balah killed 21 people.

Palestinian medical officials say an apparent Israeli airstrike early Sunday killed at least 18 people in central Gaza.

Lebanon's state-run news agency accuses Israel of using phosphorous bombs in Beirut as airstrikes kill dozens in Lebanon and Gaza.

Eyewitnesses said the number of casualties could rise as the mosque was being used to house displaced people. The Israeli military said in a statement it “conducted a precise strike on Hamas terrorists who were operating within a command and control centre embedded in a structure that previously served as the ‘Shuhada al-Aqsa’ Mosque in the area of Deir al Balah”.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli strike on a mosque in the Gaza Strip early Sunday killed at least 19 people, Palestinian officials said, as Israel intensified its bombardment of northern Gaza and southern Beirut in its widening war on Iran-allied militant groups across the region.

Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 11 Palestinians, health officials in the enclave said on Sunday, as Israeli planes bombarded several northern, central and southern areas.

At least 18 people were killed and dozens of others wounded in an Israeli air strike on a Gaza mosque, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

An apparent Israeli airstrike early Sunday killed at least 18 people in central Gaza, Palestinian medical officials said. The strike hit a mosque sheltering displaced people near the al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in the town of Deir al-Balah,