DHAKA: Up to 20 people have been killed in the deadliest night of Israeli air raids on Gaza since its current offensive began.

Palestinian officials say, reports the BBC.

The health ministry said most died in attacks on a house and a cafe in Khan Younis in the south, bringing the overall death toll to 76.

Militants in Gaza continued firing rockets into Israel on Thursday, with sirens sounding over southern towns.

UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon warned the situation was ‘on a knife-edge’.

The Israeli military said that it had attacked 108 targets since midnight and that 12 rockets had been fired at Israel, seven of them intercepted by the Iron Dome defence system.

Israel says its targets in Operation Protective Edge have been militant fighters and facilities including rocket launchers, weapons stores, tunnels and command centres.

The Palestinian health ministry said 17 people including five children and three women were killed in the strikes on the house and cafe in Khan Younis.

Israel has not commented on the incidents.

Elsewhere on Thursday, three people also died in an Israeli strike on a car in western Gaza City, Palestinian reports say. Media reports said the victims were militants from Islamic Jihad.

BDST: 1726 HRS, JULY 10, 2014