More than 3,130 people have been killed in Lebanon since fighting between Israel and Hezbollah began in October last year, according to Lebanon's health ministry, most of them since September 23, when Israel launched a wide-scale bombing campaign across Lebanon and a ground invasion.

An Israeli airstrike on a multi-story building in northern Gaza killed at least 27 people, relief officials said, as the Israeli military issued new evacuation orders in the area – where it is mounting a major offensive.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said an attack on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam was a “horrific anti-Semitic incident.”

Dozens of people have been killed and wounded in an Israeli strike on a house in Jabalia in northern Gaza, Palestinian medics and rescuers say. The official Palestinian news agency Wafa and Gaza's Hamas-run civil defence agency said at least 30 people had been killed.

Israeli strikes hit near several hospitals in Gaza City early Friday as the military pushed deeper into dense urban neighborhoods in its battle with Hamas militants, prompting increasing numbers of civilians to flee toward the south of the besieged territory.