At least 12 people have been killed in airstrikes on northern Gaza during the night on Saturday, Palestinian hospital sources told Reuters.

Several of the victims are said to be civilians in a refugee camp.

In addition, a mosque must have been destroyed.

The Israeli military, which has called in 9,000 reservists to guard the border with the Gaza Strip, says the attacks are aimed exclusively at targets linked to the terrorist organization Hamas.

It is said, among other things, that they have met an "operations center" belonging to Hamas and several rocket launch sites.

New rocket attacks

During the night and in the morning, Hamas fired additional rockets at southern Israel.

Across several cities, the alarm sirens have sounded and forced the civilian population to seek protection.

In Bersheeba and Ashdod, buildings have been hit, but there are no reports of injuries or deaths yet.

It is the fifth night of escalating violence since Israel began bombing in response to Hamas repeatedly firing rockets from Gaza.

In Israel, eight people have so far lost their lives in rocket attacks, six civilians and two soldiers.

In Gaza, 132 people have been killed in Israeli bombings, according to Palestinian hospital sources, including 32 children and 21 women.

The number of injured amounts to 950.

In addition, 11 people have been killed in the occupied West Bank in clashes between violent Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces.

All information about killed and injured comes from Reuters.

Utilized the world press

On Saturday, there will also be information that the Israeli military deliberately misled the world press when they sent a message on Twitter on Friday night that "Israeli air and ground forces are carrying out an attack in the Gaza Strip".

Many interpreted it as a ground offensive and several media companies, but not SVT Nyheter, wired out the news that Israeli infantry were about to invade Gaza.

A task that was first confirmed by the military - but then withdrawn.

Now analysts say the first message may have been an attempt to exploit the press to mislead Hamas into sending troops into its secret tunnel system to counterattack.

Tunnels that the Israeli military then hoped to destroy with the help of airstrikes.

- They did not lie. It was manipulation. It was smart and it succeeded, says journalist Or Heller in the Israeli TV channel Reshet 13 according to the news agency AP.