Israel continued its air strikes in the Gaza Strip despite calls for calm and regional and international efforts to de-escalate.

Israeli raids reportedly targeted the north and west of the Gaza Strip and hit a branch of the Hamas National Bank.

Israeli media have revealed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far rejected cushions for a ceasefire and calm in Gaza.

Netanyahu met with senior Israeli military commanders to assess the situation on the Gaza front and Arab cities within the Green Line.

At least 65 people have been killed in Gaza since the Israeli escalation, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, and in Israel health officials said that 6 people had been killed by rockets fired from Gaza.

Netanyahu said earlier that Hamas leaders had been killed in airstrikes. "This is just the beginning. We will strike terrorists that they have not imagined. "

After this announcement, Palestinians fired a barrage of rockets into the Tel Aviv area and the cities of Ashdod, Ashkelon and Sderot.

Over the last few hours, Egypt has intensified its efforts to de-escalate Israel, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while Palestinian sources have hinted at a possible calm.

The Ministry reported that the Egyptian Foreign Minister forgave Shoukry in a call to his Israeli counterpart, Gaby Ashkenazi, during which he stressed "the need to stop Israeli aggression against Palestinian territory and the importance of working to spare the peoples of the region further escalation and resort to military means."