Mayor among 10 killed in Gaza strike
At least 10 people were killed in an airstrike near the municipality building in Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza, where people gathered to receive aid, medics said.
Casualties were carried by foot, on rickshaws and in cars from the site of the attack to the hospital, medics said.
The strike killed the head of the Hamas-run administrative committee in central Gaza, a Hamas source said. Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the strike on the town hall killed mayor Deiab al-Jaro, and nine other people.
The Israeli military said it targeted Mayor Jaro and accused him of being "an operative in Hamas's military wing".
At least 18 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Saturday, medics said.
A former shelter in Gaza City housing displaced people targeted Hamas fighters, the Israeli military said. At least seven people were killed there, Palestinian medics said, including a woman and her baby.
It was unclear whether any of the other people killed were fighters. The military said it had taken precautions to reduce risk of harm to civilians.
A separate strike in Gaza City killed a local journalist, medics said, which the military said it was looking into.
An emergency worker searches in the rubble of a Deir al-Balah building hit by an Israeli airstrike.
Israeli protest demands deal for hostages
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv calling for a deal to release the remaining hostages held in Gaza.
Itzik Horn, whose sons Eitan and Iair are held captive in Gaza, said: "End the war, the time has arrived for action and the time has arrived to bring everyone home." There has been guarded optimism in recent days that a ceasefire and hostage release deal for Gaza might finally be within reach.
Lior Ashkenazi, a prominent Israeli actor, told the crowd: "We all can agree that we have failed until now and that we can reach an agreement now."
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