At least 110 people, including women and children, were killed on Sunday in intensive Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian sources. Meanwhile, the Israeli military reported that two rockets were fired from central Gaza toward Israel.

In southern Gaza, 40 people-including women and children-were killed and several others injured in what Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Civil Defense, described as a "horrific massacre" targeting displaced persons in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis.

Local witnesses said the airstrike ignited fires among tents where displaced families were sleeping.

In central Gaza, 15 people, including children, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on residential homes in the town of al-Zawayda, the al-Nuseirat refugee camp, and Deir al-Balah, Basal said.

Near Gaza City, 15 people were killed when Israeli aircraft bombed a densely populated home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of the city. Four more were killed in the Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City, Basal added.

In northern Gaza, at least 36 people, including women and children, were killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting residential homes in Jabalia and Beit Lahia, according to Basal.

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said in a statement that Israeli airstrikes had targeted journalists and their families in Gaza, condemning the attacks as a "terrorist act and a crime against humanity that will not go unpunished."

Health authorities in Gaza said the Israeli army had intensified its siege and bombardment of the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza, rendering it out of service. According to the authorities, all public hospitals in northern Gaza are now non-operational.

Also on Sunday, the Israeli military said in a statement that two rockets were launched from central Gaza toward Israel. One was intercepted by air defenses, while the other landed in an open area.

Israel's Magen David Adom emergency service said there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The rocket fire triggered sirens near the community of Kissufim in the northwestern Negev Desert.

Following a two-month truce with Hamas, Israel resumed hostilities in Gaza on March 18. Since then, at least 3,193 Palestinians have been killed and 8,993 injured, according to local health authorities.

Earlier on Sunday, the Israeli military announced a significant ground incursion into "multiple areas" of Gaza as part of a new phase of its offensive, dubbed "Gideon's Chariots." The operation marks an escalation in Israel's nearly 20-month-long war against Hamas and other militant factions.

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