The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said yesterday that 88 people were killed in the Palestinian territory in the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll of the offensive to 45,805.

There was no let-up in the violence in the Gaza Strip even as Israel confirmed that negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal had resumed in Qatar.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said yesterday that it had struck more than 100 "terror targets" in the Gaza Strip over the past two days.

Several of the strikes targeted sites from which Palestinian groups had been firing projectiles into Israel in recent days, it said.

Gaza's civil defence agency yesterday reported that Israeli strikes in the Palestinian territory had killed at least 23 people. At least 11 people were killed in an air strike on a house in northern Gaza's Sheikh Radwan area.

In a separate strike, five people were killed when the house of the Abu Jarbou family was struck in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the civil defence said.

Another strike killed four people in the town of Jabalia, the agency added.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military said yesterday it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, the latest in a series of recent attacks.

"Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in Talmei Elazar, a missile launched from Yemen was intercepted prior to crossing into Israeli territory," the military said in a statement posted to Telegram.

Yemen's Houthi rebels, who control much of northern Yemen including the capital Sanaa, said in a statement yesterday they had launched "a hypersonic ballistic missile" targeting a power station south of the Israeli city of Haifa.

On Friday, Israel's military said it had shot down a missile and a drone launched from Yemen, where Iran-backed rebels have stepped up their attacks since a November ceasefire in Lebanon between Israel and another Iran-backed group, Hezbollah.

Like Hezbollah -- which began trading cross-border fire with Israel after Hamas's October 7 attack last year -- the Houthis say they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians, and have vowed to continue until there is a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

While most of the missiles and drones launched from Yemen have been intercepted, one missile wounded 16 people in Tel Aviv in December, according to Israel's military and emergency services.

In response, the Israeli air force has struck Houthi targets in Yemen, including Sanaa's international airport.