Calls for an end to the violence continue to flow in internationally. Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas tweeted that it is "imperative" to stop the fighting and resume talks towards a two-state solution.

EU foreign ministers have agreed to hold a video meeting on Tuesday, foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said. The bloc's foreign affairs service said the message is clear: "Violence must end now".

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, has meanwhile condemned Israel's "flagrant violations" of Palestinian rights. He was speaking at the start of an emergency online meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which includes 57 states.

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Pope Francis has appealed for an end to the bloodshed, in comments after his Sunday prayer in the Vatican.

"Do we really think we can build peace by destroying each other?" he asked.

Denouncing the loss of innocent lives as "terrible and unacceptable", he called for calm and urged those in charge to halt the "clamour of weapons".

The Israeli airforce says it has struck "military assets in Hamas's intelligence HQ in northern Gaza".

It comes after overnight air strikes targeted the home of Hamas's political and military leader in Gaza, Yehiya Sinwar, and the home of his brother too. It has not been confirmed if they were there at the time - but senior Hamas leaders have reportedly gone into hiding in Gaza.

Israeli media report that two other Hamas military figures have also been targeted, including the head of the Zeitoun battalion.

Israel says it will continue to respond forcefully to rocket attacks from Gaza as violence continues for a seventh day.

Israeli air strikes are taking place in the Palestinian territory, and rocket strikes have targeted southern Israel.

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Misleading or false claims have been widely shared online as the conflict has escalated in the past week.

The BBC Monitoring team, who analyse news around the world, have been looking into material from both sides.

This example below was shared by social media influencers, and was said to show a fake funeral ceremony in Gaza. But the same video was posted last year in Jordan.

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Then there's this genuine video, shared by some pro-Palestinian users, who claimed it showed al-Aqsa mosque in East Jerusalem on fire and accused Israel of letting it burn.

In truth it was a tree near the mosque that had caught fire, not the mosque itself. The fire was put out and the mosque was not damaged. The cause of the fire is disputed.

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You can read the full piece from our colleagues here.

The UN Security Council is due to meet this afternoon at 14:00 GMT (that's 15:00 UK time), to discuss the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

The surge in fighting is the worst there since 2014. But attempts at a diplomatic resolution are complicated by the status of Hamas. The militant Islamist group, which administrates the Gaza Strip, is designated as a terrorist group - either as a whole or its military wing - by Israel, the United States, the European Union, the UK and other powers.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said yesterday he was "dismayed" by civilian casualties in Gaza and "deeply disturbed" by Israel's attack on the high-rise building housing foreign media organisations.

In a statement, the UN reminded all sides that "any indiscriminate targeting of civilian and media structures violates international law and must be avoided at all costs".

News agency Agence France Presse says its Gaza offices will house teams from fellow news outlets the Associated Press and Al Jazeera, whose base was destroyed yesterday in an Israeli air strike. The decision was reported, external by the agency's Middle East and North Africa director Sylvain Estibal.

Israel's military gave journalists an hour to leave the tower block, which also contained several floors of residential apartments. That was not enough time for them to save their media archives. The Israel Defense Forces said Hamas had used the building for intelligence and making weapons - a claim denied by the building's landlord.

In an Associated Press blog, external, head of media relations Lauren Easton said AP had been in the building for 15 years and called on the Israeli government to give evidence of its allegations.

This is the moment the Gaza high-rise block was destroyed.

Towns and cities in southern Israel have come under fire this morning too, not far from the Gaza Strip.

Rocket sirens are sounding throughout the border region, including in Sderot, Gavim, Nir Am, Ibim and Mefalsim, Israeli media report.

Here's the damage from one of two rockets that landed in the middle of a street in Netivot, a city east of Gaza. Initial reports suggest no one was injured there.

We reported earlier that many of the rockets targeting the city of Ashdod overnight were destroyed by Israel's Iron Dome defence system.

How does it work? Well, as this graphic shows it relies on radar to identify and destroy incoming threats before they can cause damage. You can find out more about it here.

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Gaza was hit by Israeli air strikes early on Sunday. It appears to have been the deadliest Israeli action of its kind so far.

Health officials in Gaza say 26 people died in attacks just before dawn, including eight children. Most of those killed were reportedly from the same family.

It brings to 174 the number of people reported dead in Gaza since the conflict began a week ago. Israel has reported 10 deaths.

Dozens were also wounded in this morning's air strikes, health officials say, and rescue workers are searching the debris for survivors.

"We’re hearing screams under the rubble," a member of Gaza’s Civil Defense organization told news channel Al-Jazeera.

Among those killed was Ayman Abu al-Ouf, a doctor at al-Shifa hospital. Meanwhile the Israel Defense Forces have released a video which they say shows pilots calling off an air strike because of children in the area.

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The fighting between Israel and Hamas was triggered by days of escalating clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police at a holy hilltop compound in East Jerusalem.

The site is revered by both Muslims, who call it the Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary), and Jews, for whom it is known as the Temple Mount. Hamas demanded Israel remove police from there and the nearby predominantly Arab district of Sheikh Jarrah, where Palestinian families face eviction by Jewish settlers. Hamas launched rockets when its ultimatum went unheeded.

Palestinian anger had already been stoked by weeks of rising tension in East Jerusalem, inflamed by a series of confrontations with police since the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in mid-April.

It was further fuelled by the threatened eviction of Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem by Jewish settlers and Israel's annual celebration of its capture of East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war, known as Jerusalem Day.

The fate of the city, with its deep religious and national significance to both sides, lies at the heart of the decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict. Israel in effect annexed East Jerusalem in 1980 and considers the entire city its capital, though this is not recognised by the vast majority of other countries.

Palestinians claim the eastern half of Jerusalem as the capital of a hoped-for state of their own.

Israel’s security cabinet has been meeting to discuss its next steps, amid growing international calls for a ceasefire with Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that rules the Gaza Strip.

The cabinet is a committee of ministers with the power to make decisions about military action. Israeli media suggest some members intend to call for a swift end to hostilities.

Defence officials have warned that continued violence could draw Israel into a wider conflict, with further casualties and the risk of a ground offensive.

Two days after his Middle East envoy Hady Amr arrived for talks in Israel, President Joe Biden has phoned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

The US regards Hamas as a terrorist organisation, so will not talk to leaders in Gaza. As Mr Abbas is based in the occupied West Bank and has no sway over the running of the Gaza Strip, that makes any prospect of US mediation difficult.

Mr Biden told the Israeli leader that he supported Israel's right to self-defence but expressed concern over fatalities on both sides.

Israel destroyed a high-rise block in Gaza on Saturday that housed foreign media organisations including the Associated Press and Al-Jazeera, claiming that Hamas military intelligence was operating there. The building's landlord has denied that, and the news organisations said they had no knowledge of such a connection.

"This is something we actively check to the best of our ability," AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt said in a statement, external. "We would never knowingly put our journalists at risk."

An evacuation warning was issued before the strike.

Mr Biden called for journalists to be protected and also told President Abbas he was committed to "strengthening the US-Palestinian partnership".

Read more about the policy headache facing President Biden here.

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It was another night of sirens and rocket barrages in towns and cities across central and southern Israel overnight. Some 130 rockets were fired, according to Israel's military, and more were reported on Sunday morning.

Israeli reports say a number of people were hurt trying to reach bomb shelters, but nobody was injured by the rockets themselves.

Among the cities targeted in a midnight barrage were Ashdod and Beersheba in the south. This was the scene over Ashdod where the military's Iron Dome can be seen intercepting rockets.

Sirens could be heard across Tel Aviv, Rishon Lezion and Givatayim.

PM Benjamin Netanyahu gave a live TV address on Saturday evening in which he said Israel was "still in the midst of this operation, it is still not over and this operation will continue as long as necessary".

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The Hamas-run Palestinian health ministry in Gaza says 26 people were killed and dozens wounded in Israeli air strikes early today. Among the targets overnight was the home of Hamas's political and military leader in Gaza, Yehiya Sinwar, in Khan Yunis.

Sinwar was released from an Israeli prison in 2011. The Israel Defence Forces said both his home and that of his brother Muhammed are used as "terror infrastructure". Other Hamas officials were also targeted. It is not clear whether any of the Hamas leaders were at home at the time.

Pictures from the ground in Gaza City this morning show rescuers searching for the wounded and recovering bodies, including at least one young girl. Palestinian reports say one of those killed in the latest strikes is Dr Ayman Abu al-Ouf, head of the Department of Internal Medicine at Gaza's Alshifa hospital.

Welcome to our live reporting of the conflict between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza which has now entered its seventh day. These are the latest developments:

• Palestinian health officials say 26 people died in air strikes in Gaza early on Sunday
• Israeli air strikes have targeted the home of Hamas's leader in Gaza: there is no indication he was there
• A barrage of rockets was fired at central and southern Israel overnight and more are reported this morning - but there are no reports of serious casualties
• US President Joe Biden has phoned Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to express concern about the situation
• Israel's security cabinet is due to discuss its next steps
• The UN Security Council will meet to discuss the conflict later on Sunday

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We're now pausing our live coverage - thanks for staying with us!

To recap, here are the key developments from the past 24 hours:

• A tower building containing the offices of international media outlets in Gaza is destroyed by an Israeli air strike - watch the moment the building collapsed
• Israeli PM Netanyahu tells US President Biden that Israel "is doing everything to avoid harming innocent civilians"
• Biden also has a separate phone call with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, in a push to end hostilities
• At least 10 people, including eight children, were killed in an Israeli air strike on a refugee camp in Gaza, Palestinians say
• The death toll in Gaza rises to 145 since Monday, Hamas says
• Israel says 10 of its citizens have been killed

You can still get all the latest updates on this fast-moving story on the BBC News website.

Saturday's coverage was brought to you by a team of journalists in London: Alexandra Fouche, David Gritten, Joshua Cheetham and Yaroslav Lukov. The live page was edited by Hugo Bachega and David Walker.

Hamas has warned it could fire more rockets on Tel Aviv after midnight local time (22:00 GMT), Israeli media report.

The armed wing of the Palestinian militant group has vowed to strike Tel Aviv and central Israel should Israel continue to target high-rise residential buildings in the Gaza Strip, the Times of Israel reports, external.

Israel says one of its fighter jets has attacked the home of a senior Hamas commander in Gaza, Israeli media report.

They said that, according to the Israeli Defense Forces, Raed Sa’ad was the head of Hamas’s special operations command and his house was “military infrastructure” for the group.

The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza says 145 Palestinians have been killed since the latest conflict with Israel began last Monday. It says the death toll includes 41 children.

More than 1,000 Palestinians have also been wounded, the ministry says.

Israel says 10 of its residents have been killed since Monday.

Earlier we reported on two separate phone calls US President Joe Biden had on Saturday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.

The White House has now issued a readout of the Biden-Abbas call.

In a statement, it said Biden conveyed "the US commitment to strengthening the US-Palestinian partnership". , external

The two leaders "discussed the current tensions in Jerusalem and the West Bank and expressed their shared desire for Jerusalem to be a place of peaceful coexistence for people of all faiths and backgrounds.

"President Biden updated President Abbas on US diplomatic engagement on the ongoing conflict and stressed the need for Hamas to cease firing rockets into Israel.

"They expressed their shared concern that innocent civilians, including children, have tragically lost their lives amidst the ongoing violence," the statement said.