About 20 Palestinians were killed on Friday during ongoing Israeli army operations against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, according to unconfirmed reports from Palestinian medical sources.
The information could not be independently verified.
The Israeli military said that its operations would continue in the centre and south of the sealed-off coastal area.
Overnight, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) rocket launch site was hit in an area in the city of Khan Younis, which is designated as a humanitarian zone.
The launch site was located in a place where many civilians had sought shelter from the fighting in Gaza and where measures had been taken to keep them safe, the military said.
"Terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip continue to place weapons and terrorist infrastructure in the midst of the civilian population, endangering them and using them as human shields," the army said.
Fighting and "close combat" was also reportedly continuing in the southern city of Rafah by the border with Egypt.
Israeli soldiers said they had discovered further tunnels in the city.
The military said on Friday that two soldiers were killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
The information provided by the army could also not be independently verified.
The Gaza war was triggered by the massacre of more than 1,200 people by Hamas and allied groups in Israel on October 7 last year.
According to the Hamas-controlled health authority in Gaza, at least 37,431 people have been killed and 85,653 injured in Gaza since the start of the war. The figures do not distinguish between civilians and combatants and cannot be independently verified.