Gaza鈥檚 civil defence agency said an Israeli strike on Friday night near Jabalia in the territory鈥檚 north killed 33 people at a refugee camp.
Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal announced 鈥�33 deaths and dozens of wounded鈥� while a medical source at the Al-Awda hospital told AFP earlier that it had registered 22 dead and 70 wounded after the strike on the Tal al-Zaatar camp for Palestinian refugees.
Asked for comment about overnight strikes in the area, an Israeli army spokesperson said they were 鈥榣ooking into it鈥�.
On October 6, Israel launched a new offensive in northern Gaza, including around Jabalia, saying it was targeting Hamas fighters who were regrouping there.
Since then, scores of people have been killed in the area, which had already been hit hard by fighting earlier in the year-long war.
The UN humanitarian affairs agency said Friday night that it continued 鈥榯o sound the alarm about the increasingly dire and dangerous situation that civilians in northern Gaza are facing. Families there are trying to survive in atrocious conditions, under heavy bombardment.鈥�
Lebanese authorities said two people were killed in an Israeli strike on Saturday in Jounieh, north of Beirut, the first attack on the area since Hezbollah and Israel started trading fire last year.
The strike occurred on the highway connecting Beirut to northern Lebanon, prompting a large deployment of troops and security forces, said an AFP correspondent in the area.
The road, a key artery for those fleeing the Israel-Hezbollah war since it erupted in the south last month, suffered minimal damage.
The health ministry said an Israeli raid there killed two people.
The official National News Agency said a man and his wife were killed in a drone strike on their four-wheel drive.
They were hit in a field adjacent to the road after escaping an initial strike near their vehicle, NNA said, without identifying them.
鈥業 saw them run out of the car,鈥� said a witness who asked to remain anonymous. 鈥楾hey were then hit again.鈥�
Jounieh, a Christian-majority town, has not been hit since Israel and Hezbollah started exchanging cross-border fire over the Gaza war last year.
The tit-for-tat attacks escalated into all-out war on September 23, with Israel pounding Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon鈥檚 south and east as well as the southern suburbs of the capital.
Israel has also carried out a string of assassinations of officials linked to Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
Its strikes have reached areas outside of Hezbollah鈥檚 traditional strongholds, including central Beirut and Christian villages in north Lebanon.
At the scene of Saturday鈥檚 strikes, motorists and residents were left rattled.
The war has left at least 1,418 people dead in Lebanon, according to an AFP tally of Lebanese health ministry figures, though the real toll is likely higher.
More than a million people have been forced to flee their homes, including thousands who have crossed into neighbouring Syria.