A total of 126 Palestinians have died and at least 926 others have been wounded during five days of Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip, health officials said Saturday.
At least five Palestinians died and more than 10 were wounded Saturday in an Israeli bombardment of a residential area in the northern part of Gaza.
Earlier, at least 10 Palestinians were killed before dawn Saturday in Gaza, which is controlled by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, and more than 15 were wounded in air strikes in different parts of the coastal enclave.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qedra said three Palestinians died and five were wounded in one air strike targeting a group of people who had gathered near a mosque on the west side of Gaza City.
Earlier, two disabled youth died and five others were seriously wounded when an air strike hit a center for the disabled in the northern Gaza Strip, the spokesman said.
The Gaza Health Ministry says two-thirds of the victims of Israel's Operation Protective Edge, launched in retaliation for rocket fire targeting Israeli cities from the coastal enclave, have been civilians, including, women, children and the elderly.
It also says Gaza hospitals are suffering severe shortages of medical supplies needed to care for the wounded.
In a statement, Israel's military said it had attacked approximately 84 targets linked to Hamas "terrorist" activities in the Gaza Strip in its most recent missions.
The military said the targets included 68 rocket launchers, 21 complexes used by the militants, 18 installations for manufacturing and storing weapons, as well as sites linked to Hamas and other armed groups throughout Gaza.
Armed Palestinian factions, including, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, continued to fire rockets into Israel on Saturday.
Israel military sources said Saturday morning that 690 rockets have been launched at Israel from Gaza since Operation Protective Edge began on Tuesday, adding that 138 of them have been intercepted by the country's Iron Dome missile-defense system.
Seven Israelis, including three soldiers, have been wounded by rocket fire since the major military offensive was launched.
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon warned Saturday that "long days of fighting" lie ahead and said the military will continue to deal heavy blows to Hamas.
Separately, local media said Arab countries including Egypt and Qatar have prepared a rough draft with conditions for a ceasefire and delivered it to Israeli and Palestinian authorities.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday offered to broker a new truce between Israel and Hamas and said all sides must "do everything they can to protect the lives of civilians and restore calm" to the region.
Meanwhile, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon condemned the violence and urged both sides to "exercise maximum restraint."
Israel has been massing troops on the border with the Gaza Strip and has called up 40,000 reservists as it prepares to launch a ground offensive.
The latest crisis erupted last month, when Israel began a massive search for three Jewish seminary students who went missing June 12 in the occupied West Bank and were found murdered 18 days later.
Israel blamed the abductions on Hamas, which has said it has no information concerning the kidnap-murders, and arrested 500 people, most of them linked to the group.
Tensions flared after a Palestinian teenager was abducted in Jerusalem last week and found burned to death hours later in a suspected revenge killing for the murders of the three Israeli students.
Israel occupied Gaza for 38 years before withdrawing its forces and pulling out its settlers in 2005, although it still largely controls the coastal enclave's borders and airspace
