Israel has widened its air assault against the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers, hitting a mosque it said was hiding rockets, as Palestinians said the death toll from the five-day offensive had risen above 125.

Israel has launched a series of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for the deadly shooting of an Israeli civilian, killing at least two people, including a young girl, and wounding nine.

An Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip has killed an Islamic Jihad militant and wounded three others as they were preparing to fire rockets into southern Israel.

Five men have been killed in an explosion at a militant training camp in the southern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian medical official said.

More than 250 children have been killed in the Gaza fighting, according to the latest UN figures.

Fifty-four people, including two dozen civilians, were killed as clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants escalated today.

Five Hamas militants, including two commanders involved in rocket attacks, were killed today when an Israeli aircraft blew up a minivan in southern Gaza.

An Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza Strip early today, Palestinian witnesses and officials said.