Is­raeli strikes pound­ed Gaza overnight and in­to Tues­day, hit­ting a fam­i­ly home and a school-turned-shel­ter, and killing at least 60 peo­ple, Pales­tin­ian health of­fi­cials said, as Is­rael pressed its war against Hamas de­spite mount­ing in­ter­na­tion­al con­dem­na­tion.

Is­rael launched an­oth­er ma­jor of­fen­sive in the ter­ri­to­ry in re­cent days, say­ing it aims to re­turn dozens of hostages held by Hamas and de­stroy the mil­i­tant group. More than 300 peo­ple have been killed in Gaza since the start of the lat­est on­slaught, ac­cord­ing to lo­cal health of­fi­cials.

Is­rael says it seeks to seize Gaza and hold on to ter­ri­to­ry there, dis­place hun­dreds of thou­sands of peo­ple and se­cure aid dis­tri­b­u­tion.