Summary Death toll in Israeli air strikes in Gaza rose to 48 as eight more Palestinians died in new attacks.
Eight Palestinians were killed in new Israeli air strikes across Gaza on Saturday, raising the death toll from 72 hours of raids to 48, the emergency services said.
The latest death was that of a 30-year-old woman, killed in a strike on a home in the central Gaza town of Khan Yunis, an emergency services statement said.
Another two Palestinians were killed in a strike in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, along with two more in the Masdar area, also in central Gaza.
At least four people were injured in the Deir al-Balah strike, which followed multiple strikes earlier in the day that killed 10 Palestinians, eight of them militants.
The statement added that at least two Palestinians were in critical condition after an air strike on their car in the Zeitun neighbourhood of Gaza City, adding that another two were also in serious condition after a strike on a motorbike in Khan Yunis.
The bloodshed raised to 45 the total number of Palestinians killed in just over 72 hours of Israeli air strikes, while another 450 were injured, Gaza s emergency services said.
Over the same period, three Israelis have been killed by rockets and another 18 injured, 10 of them soldiers, police and the army said.
Earlier attacks on Rafah killed five people -- an ambulance worker called Awad Nahal and four Hamas militants.
One of the militants was named as Mukhlis Adwan, but the identities of the other three were not immediately available.
Another three people -- all Hamas militants -- were killed in a strike on Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, with security sources naming them as Ali Manameh, Hossam Abdel Jawad and Assaf Gharwish.
Palestinian medics said another man, an Islamic Jihad militant wounded in a strike on Zeitun in Gaza City earlier in the day, died of his injuries. They named him as Mohammed Yassin, 24.
Meanwhile in Israel, nine people were injured by rocket fire on Saturday.
Four were soldiers who sustained light injuries, the army said, with military sources saying they were "inside a building" at the time.
The military said the incident occurred in the Eshkol regional council area, and Hamas militants claimed the attack, saying they had fired five mortar rounds at a "position" in Reim some eight kilometres (five miles) from central Gaza.
During the afternoon, another five Israelis were lightly injured when four rockets hit the southern coastal town of Ashdod, scoring direct hits on a block of flats and a vehicle, the police and army said.
