The Palestinian factions in Gaza rained down on the Israeli depths with a barrage of rockets, and disrupted a marine gas station, while the occupation warplanes intensified their bombing of homes in Gaza, causing 37 martyrs during the day.

Israeli media reported this evening, Sunday, that 3,000 rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israeli cities and towns since the start of the escalation a week ago, according to Israeli army data.

Israeli Channel 11 announced that Hamas has submarines capable of carrying 50 kilograms of explosives, and sources said that these submarines were targeted while trying to attack natural gas platforms in the Mediterranean, as the Israeli military censorship allowed the news to be published.

According to Kan al-Hebrew, work has stopped at the Tamar gas exploration station in the Mediterranean Sea after Hamas launched rockets at it, and Israeli military sources said that Hamas targeted a gas field off Ashkelon with dozens of rockets.

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Meanwhile, the Al-Jazeera correspondent said that a barrage of rockets was launched from the Gaza Strip from several directions towards Tel Aviv and its northern, southern and eastern suburbs, as the bombing reached the Hasharon area north of Tel Aviv, which means an expansion of the target areas.

Israeli media reported that 10 Israelis were injured while fleeing to shelters, and several cars and buildings were damaged in Ashkelon, Ashdod and Beersheba.

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For its part, the Al-Qassam Brigades confirmed - in a statement - the bombing of Beersheba, Ashdod, Ashkelon and the Raem base with rocket barrages, and said that this was in response to "the massacre against civilians at night in Gaza and the attack on the people of Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem."

In turn, the National Resistance Brigades and the Nasser Salah El-Din Brigades announced that they had bombed the Eshkol area in the northern Gaza Strip with a batch of rockets.

The Jerusalem Brigades also announced that they bombed the settlement of Nir Ishaq with a batch of rockets, as well as the Amitai base and a company of the Golani Brigade inside the Kosovim military site.

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Dozens of martyrs and wounded

On the other hand, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that the number of victims of today's raids in the Gaza Strip has risen to 37, including 13 women and 8 children, in addition to 50 wounded.

The undersecretary of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said that Israel deliberately bombed the roads leading to hospitals to prevent the wounded from arriving.

Despite calls for an end to the violence, Israeli media quoted officials this evening as saying that the security cabinet decided to continue the military operation in the Gaza Strip.

A Palestinian mourns his daughter after she was killed in the Israeli bombing of Gaza (Getty Images)

international organizations

Doctors Without Borders announced that many of its staff were forced to flee their homes, fearing for their safety, and that there is no safe place in Gaza.

She added that her clinic providing treatment for injuries and burns was damaged by the Israeli bombing.

In turn, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement that "the military operations between Israel and Gaza must stop and urgent humanitarian action must begin immediately," warning that the ferocity of the current conflict is unprecedented and that children are dying on both sides.

The ICRC explained that the destruction of roads and buildings and the constant bombardment disrupted the ability of the people of Gaza to reach hospitals, as well as prevented the mission and other relief organizations from providing the necessary assistance to the residents.

The Committee of the Red Cross added, "We call on all concerned to protect civilians, reduce escalation and enable us to help the people," considering that protecting civilians is an obligation at all times.

Amnesty International said that it calls on the International Criminal Court to investigate the bombing of 8 children in Gaza as a "war crime", and confirmed that this massacre is consistent with the policy of collective punishment against Palestinians pursued by Israel.

The organization also called for an investigation into the destruction of the offices of Al-Jazeera, the Associated Press and other media outlets, as a "war crime."

This comes after the Israeli raids committed a massacre in the Al-Shati refugee camp, when they bombed a house and caused the death of its residents, who are 8 children and two women, while only a baby survived.

Yesterday, the occupation bombed Al-Jawhara Tower, which includes the Al-Jazeera headquarters in Gaza and other offices, as well as sixty apartments, completely destroying it.