GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: At least 91 Palestinians were killed and another 350 injured in Israeli attacks, medics said, as a hoped-for ceasefire disintegrated with the apparent capture of an Israeli soldier on Friday.
Nineteen Palestinians were killed on Friday night in Israeli air strikes on Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip early Saturday.
Fifteen of those victims, including five children aged 3-12, came from the same family whose house was destroyed, said emergency services spokesman Acjraf al-Qodra.
Earlier the bodies of five Palestinians were discovered in the rubble of buildings in Rafah that had been hit in Israeli raids.
Five more Palestinians were killed in two separate incidents of Israeli tank fire.
Hamas accused Israel of breaking the short-lived ceasefire, which had been due to commence early Friday and last for three days.
The Jewish state said it was responding to militant rocket fire. The chances of a durable truce seemed as remote as ever after the probable capture of Israeli Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, 23.
The military also announced that two soldiers had been killed in the same incident near the southern city of Rafah.
More than 1,500 Palestinians, the vast majority of them civilians, have been killed in almost four weeks of conflict, Qodra said.
Israeli justice minister Tzipi Livni, a member of the eight-strong security cabinet, accused Hamas of being behind the disappearance of the missing soldier and said the group would pay a high price.
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