Israel's military has struck numerous targets in the Gaza Strip after Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said his country needed to be prepared for a long conflict in the Palestinian territory.
By daybreak on Tuesday, a cloud of thick dust from the explosions hung over Gaza City after Israeli forces fired hundreds of flares that turned the night sky bright orange.
At least 30 people were killed in the Israeli assaults from air, land, and sea, residents said, in the most widespread night of attacks so far. At least 1,110 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have died in the ongoing Israeli offensive.
Eleven people were killed in a strike on a house in the Bureij refugee camp in Gaza City as Israeli forces hit targets across the coastal strip, including a government complex.
Israeli aircraft also fired a missile at the house of Ismail Haniyeh, Gaza's senior Hamas leader, before dawn on Tuesday, causing damage but no casualties, Gaza's interior ministry said.
The Gaza Strip's sole power plant was on fire on Tuesday morning after being struck by at least one artillery shell, Palestinian news agencies said.
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