Despite calls for a new cease-fire, fighting intensified in Gaza on Monday and Tuesday morning, with Palestinians saying more than two dozen people died as rockets or mortars struck a refugee camp, a hospital and the center of Gaza City. Eighteen people died as powerful and continuous air strikes rained down on Gaza City early Tuesday morning, the Palestinian Health Authority reported. And the Israeli military reported that 10 of its soldiers were killed Monday. Al Aqsa TV reported that Israeli strikes hit the Ministry of Finance in western Gaza and the house of Ismail Haniyeh, a senior political leader of Hamas. A radio station run by Hamas was bombed.
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Five Israeli soldiers killed in militant tunnel attack, IDF says
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The death toll in Gaza rises above 1,100, Palestinian health official says
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Netanyahu tells nation to prepare for "protracted campaign" in Gaza
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At least eight children killed at Gaza refugee camp, Gaza's Health Ministry says
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