Israel on Thursday launched air strikes on southern Gaza's Rafah after threatening to send troops against Hamas militants in the city where around 1.4 million Palestinians have sought refuge.
Global powers trying to find a way to end the Israel-Hamas war have so far failed, but a US envoy was expected in Israel on Thursday in the latest attempt to secure a truce deal.
International concern has spiralled over Gaza's high civilian death toll and the dire humanitarian crisis sparked by the war that followed Hamas's October 7 attack against Israel.
Israel has been bombing targets in Rafah, which was again hit overnight and where early Thursday AFP reporters heard multiple air strikes.
Gaza's Civil Defence agency reported "a number of martyrs" there, while elsewhere in Rafah residents walked among the rubble of the city's al-Faruq mosque, after strikes.
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Thursday that at least 29,410 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory during the war between Hamas-led militants and Israel.
A ministry statement said a total of 97 people died in 24 hours, while another 69,465 have been wounded since the war began on October 7.
Meanwhile, the OIC Observatory for Israeli Crimes and Violations against Palestinians has stressed the need to address the ongoing Israeli disinformation campaign as well as the continuing aggression of Israel, against Palestinian, especially in the Gaza Strip.
In preparation for the Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Conference of Information Ministers scheduled to be held in Istanbul, Türkiye, on Saturday, will discuss joint efforts to confront disinformation campaigns carried out by Israel, the occupying power, against journalists in Palestine, reads a press release of OIC on Thursday.
The OIC Observatory noted that journalists continue to face killings, harassment, and violence by the occupation forces while covering the ongoing Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip and the entire occupied territory.

According to Palestinian media rights groups and Palestinian journalists, an increase in disinformation targeting reality has been observed in occupied Palestine, where Israel is actively spreading false information and propaganda to undermine the credibility and influence of Palestinian and other journalists.

These tactics include spreading misleading narratives and fabricated stories and using social media platforms to amplify anti-Palestinian messages.

It is noteworthy that journalists wearing press identity cards were deliberately targeted and killed on dozens of occasions in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank by Israeli soldiers.

In addition, the Israeli occupation destroys media offices and facilities, resulting in casualties among workers in this sector and civilians.