Wednesday 16 July 2014 16.36 Four children on the beach in Gaza City were killed in an Israeli raid today, raising the overall death toll to 213, emergency services have said.
All four were on the beach when the attack took place, in what initially appeared to be shelling from the sea, according to AFP correspondents who witnessed the attack from a nearby hotel.
Several injured children took refuge at the hotel, they added.
The latest violence took today's death toll to 16, and raised the overall number of dead in Gaza after nine days of violence to 216, emergency services spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said.
More than 1,560 have been wounded.
Earlier, a 37-year-old man was killed in an air strike on the Zeitun neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
It took place several hours after the army warned 100,000 residents to leave the area and the neighbouring district of Shejaiya.
Most of today's deaths came in the south, with six killed in several strikes on Khan Yunis and five killed in Rafah, which straddles the Egyptian border.
In Khan Yunis, four people from the Al-Daqqa family were killed in two separate strikes, one of which killed a 65-year-old woman and a ten-year-old boy.
One of the victims in Khan Yunis was killed by tank fire.
In Rafah, five men were killed in four separate strikes, one of which hit a house in the city, Mr Qudra said.
According to figures provided by the Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), more than 80% of the victims were civilians.
So far, one person has been killed in Israel, a civilian who died yesterday evening in a rocket strike near the Erez crossing.
Four Israelis have been seriously wounded.
Since the latest violence began before dawn on 8 July, 1,021 rockets fired from Gaza have struck Israel, and another 256 have been shot down by the Iron Dome air defence system, army figures say.
It said 43 struck Israel today and 24 were intercepted.
During its operation, Israel has struck more than 1,750 "terror targets" across the coastal enclave, the army has said.
International efforts towards a ceasefire collapsed yesterday after Hamas rejected an Egypt-proposed truce.
Israel then resumed its bombing raids several hours later after continued rocket fire.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army has warned about 100,000 Palestinians in eastern Gaza to evacuate their homes.
Flyers were dropped over the Zeitun neighbourhood southeast of Gaza City. Residents there and elsewhere also reported receiving recorded phone and text messages urging them to evacuate.
Gaza is home to 1.8 million people, many of them refugees from the 1948 Palestine War in which the state of Israel was created, making it one of the most densely-populated places on the planet.
Hamas leaders have said any deal to end the violence must include an end to Israel's blockade of Gaza and a recommitment to a truce reached in an eight-day war there in 2012.
Hamas also wants Egypt to ease restrictions at its Rafah crossing with Gaza, imposed after the military ousted President Mohammed Mursi a year ago.
Hamas has faced a cash crisis and Gaza's economic hardship has deepened as a result of Egypt's destruction of cross-border smuggling tunnels.
Egyptian authorities also accuse Hamas of assisting anti-government Islamist militants in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, an accusation that the Palestinian group denies.
Hamas has said it also wants the release of hundreds of its activists arrested in the West Bank while Israel searched for three missing teenagers.
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