Israeli forces pounded several areas across the Gaza Strip on Saturday and targeted an ammunition depot belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
At least 39 Palestinians were killed across Gaza, health officials said, as tanks advanced deeper into western and northern Rafah.
While the strikes on the town of Adloun, Lebanon, about 40 kilometers (about 25 miles) north of the border with Israel, set off a string of loud explosions and wounded at least four civilians, a medical source and a security source told Reuters. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
That attack followed an escalation Thursday and Friday in the daily exchange of fire between Israeli forces and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon.
Among those killed in Gaza were local journalist Mohammad Abu Jasser, his wife and two children in an Israeli strike on their home in the northern Gaza Strip, a medic said.
Gaza's Hamas-run government media office said Abu Jasser's death raised to 161 the number of Palestinian media personnel killed by Israeli fire since October 7.
Just before midnight, an Israeli airstrike on an encampment housing displaced Palestinian families killed at least 10 people, medics and Hamas media said.
In the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, an Israeli airstrike Saturday on a house killed three people and wounded eight others, medics said.
Earlier in the day an Israeli missile struck a multifloored building in the camp, wounding several people, including two local journalists, rescue workers said.
In Rafah, where Israel said it aimed to dismantle the last battalions of Hamas' armed wing, residents said tanks advanced deeper into northern areas of the city and took control of a hilltop in the west, amid fierce gun battles with Hamas-led fighters.
The army said troops continued operations in Rafah, eliminating many gunmen over the past day around Tel Al-Sultan on the western side of the city. In central Gaza, the military said it conducted raids on militants' infrastructure.
The military also said it hit a structure used by Palestinian militants in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza Strip, saying gunmen were operating from a humanitarian area, and accused Gaza militants of exploiting civilian structures and population for military purposes, an allegation Hamas and other groups reject as false to justify such attacks.
A cease-fire effort led by Qatar and Egypt and backed by the United States has so far failed as the combatants blame each other for the impasse.
Israel vowed to eradicate Hamas after its fighters killed 1,200 people and captured about 250 hostages in an October 7 attack, according to Israeli tallies. Israel says it believes Hamas is still holding 116 hostages, including 42 the military says are dead.
At least 38,919 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's retaliatory offensive since then, according to the territory's health ministry, which does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count. In May, Israel estimated the death toll at 30,000, and that most of the dead are combatants.
On Tuesday, Israel said it had eliminated half the leadership of Hamas' military wing and killed or captured about 14,000 fighters since the start of the war.
Israel says 326 of its soldiers have been killed in Gaza.
