At least 274 Palestinians have been killed in one of Israel's largest attacks since it launched its war on Gaza in October.
Its forces carried out assaults from the air, land and sea - shelling residential areas around Deir el-Balah and Nuseirat.
Those attacks were part of an operation to free four Israeli captives.

Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum has the latest from outside Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah.

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