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AFP

JERUSALEM - Fighting raged Saturday in Gaza, six weeks after a shock Hamas attack sparked an air and ground offensive by Israel, which has vowed to destroy the Palestinian militant group.

About 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were killed in Israel during the October 7 attack and around 240 taken hostage, according to Israeli officials.

In Gaza, around 12,000 people, also mostly civilians, have been killed in the conflict, officials in the Hamas-run territory have said.

Here are five key developments from the past 24 hours:

Refugee camp hit twice

A health ministry official in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip said more than 80 people were killed in two separate Israeli strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp.

"At least 50 people" were killed in an Israeli strike on the UN-run Al-Fakhura school, which had been converted into a shelter for displaced Palestinians, the official told AFP.

A separate strike on another building killed 32 people from the same family, 19 of them children, the official added.

Earlier in south Gaza, at least 26 people were killed in a strike on a residential building in the Khan Yunis region.

The Israeli army has yet to comment on the strikes.

Hundreds flee hospital

Hundreds of people left Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital on foot, an AFP journalist at the scene saw, after the hospital director said the Israeli army ordered the facility's evacuation.

Hamas health officials said 120 wounded were still at the facility, along with an unspecified number of premature babies.

Israel's army denied ordering the evacuation, saying it "acceded" to a request from hospital directors to allow people to leave.

Al-Shifa hospital -- Gaza's biggest -- has become a focal point of the war. Israel alleges Hamas operates a base underneath the facility, a charge the Islamists deny.

West Bank militants killed

Five fighters in the armed wing of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas' Fatah party were killed overnight in a rare Israeli air strike on the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent and Fatah sources said.

The Israeli army said it had killed "a number of terrorists" in a strike on the Balata refugee camp in Nablus.

Witnesses told AFP the strike appeared to have come from a drone, and Fatah sources confirmed the dead were members of the movement founded by late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Strike deep in Lebanon

Israel hit a factory deep in Lebanese territory, state media in Lebanon said, a week after another far-reaching strike.

"An enemy (Israeli) drone fired two missiles at an aluminium factory on the road between Toul and Kfour, setting it on fire," Lebanon's official National News Agency said.

Weeks of deadly skirmishes between Israel and armed factions in Lebanon, mainly Hezbollah, have largely been limited to border areas since the Israel-Hamas war began.

Fuel enters Gaza under Israel-US deal

A first consignment of fuel entered Gaza from Egypt after Israel agreed to a US request to allow limited deliveries to end a communications blackout that has halted aid convoys for two days.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said Israel agreed to allow in 60,000 litres (16,000 gallons) of fuel daily from Egypt, but warned it was little more than a third of what is needed to keep hospitals, water and sanitation facilities running.