Hamas health ministry says 92 people were killed overnight. Israeli strike hit a kindergarten in Rafah (south) where people who had fled the fighting had found refuge.

Israel's ground offensive, launched on October 27 in the north of the Gaza Strip, extended to the south, to Khan Younes, at the beginning of December. Negotiations are continuing to reach a second truce, longer than the one week which allowed the release of around a hundred hostages held in Gaza. American Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected in the Middle East on Sunday to support negotiations.