'Hell on Earth has returned to Gaza': Scores reported killed as fighting shatters Israel-Hamas truce

Within hours of the truce expiring, Gaza health officials reported that 109 people had been killed and dozens wounded in air strikes.

A Palestinian baby wounded in Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip is treated in a hospital in Khan Younis, Friday. Picture: AP Photo/Fatima Shbair

Israel's warplanes pounded Gaza on Friday after talks to extend a week-old truce with Hamas collapsed, sending wounded and dead Palestinians into hospitals and others onto the streets to seek safety.

Eastern areas of Khan Younis in southern Gaza came under intense bombardment as the deadline lapsed shortly after dawn, with columns of smoke rising into the sky, Reuters journalists in the city said.