Live blog: Gaza under attack

Haaretz reveals document in which Germany, France and Britain seek return of Gaza to Palestinian Authority control, lifting of restrictions, international supervision and restart of peace talks based on '67 borders.

As the war on Gaza intensified and the images of killed children made the rounds, people all over the world asked a simple question: What can be done to stop this carnage?

The answer is: make the occupation costly and strengthen the resilience of the Palestinians.

Hamas has said that the assassination of its leaders makes the group stronger, reported the Anadolu Agency.

A Palestinian was killed late on Thursday by an Israeli strike on the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, a Palestinian Health Ministry official said.

"The new fatality raises to 2084 the number of Palestinians killed by Israel since July 7," Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qodra told Anadolu Agency.

Thirty-four Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks today, says Gaza ministry of health spokesman, Ashraf al-Qudra.

The total number killed over 46 days of violence, has reached 2083.

An Israeli Minister said that the leaders of the Palestinian faction Hamas can be the targets of liquidation in case the faction continued fire rockets on Israel.

Finance Minister Yair Lapid was quoted by Israel Radio as saying that all the political and military leaders of Hamas – both inside and outside the Gaza Strip – must realize that they can be the legitimate targets of liquidation as long as their movement continued to fire rockets on population concentrations in Israel.

During a meeting with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Lapid said his country would continue to defend itself and fight against what he described as armed Palestinian forces.

Yoav Mordachai, a coordinator of government activities in the Palestinian territories, meanwhile, said none of Hamas' political or military leaders would be immune from being targeted.

He told Israel Radio that his country knows the places of Hamas' leaders, particularly referring to Shifa Hospital, the Gaza Strip's largest medical centre.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday called for forming an international alliance to fight what he described as Islamic terrorism.

Ahead of a meeting with US Republican Congressman Darrell Edward Issa, Netanyahu said "Islamic terrorism" threatens the entire world, including Israel, the US and moderate Arab countries.

He went on to compare the Palestinian resistance group Hamas to the militant Islamic State which controls large swathes in both Iraq and Syria.

The Palestinian Health Ministry on Thursday called for an international probe into what it described as "evidence" it had collected that Israel was using internationally-banned materials in its ongoing onslaught on the Gaza Strip.

The ministry said its personnel had reported the arrival at Gaza hospitals of persons with missing limbs and other serious injuries inflicted as a result of Israel's use by Israel of experimental Dense Inert Metal Explosive (DIME) explosives, which are internationally-banned.

In a statement, the ministry asserted that Israel was also using small "nail bombs," shrapnel from which causes serious injury to all parts of the body.

The ministry further contended that weapons being used by Israel in the Gaza Strip may contain radioactive materials that could have serious long-term health effects and pollute the environment.

Palestinians carry the body of Mohammed Barhoum, one of three senior Hamas commanders who was killed in an Israeli air strike.

Israel took Palestinian negotiators all the way to Cairo, making them believe it was serious about reaching a permanent ceasefire deal – until it obtained the intelligence needed to assassinate leaders of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, Palestinian analysts said Thursday.

Israel, they said, had pulled its negotiators out of indirect ceasefire talks with their Palestinians counterparts in Cairo once it had gathered the necessary data about Palestinian military commanders in the embattled Gaza Strip.

The Israeli government, they added, had wanted to kill certain military commanders in order to raise Israeli morale.