Israel has bombed militant targets in Gaza for a fifth straight day, as it prepares for a possible ground invasion.
Attacks were launched from the air and sea, despite Egypt's President Mohamed Morsi saying a truce was in sight.
Forty-seven Palestinians, about half of them civilians, including 12 children, have been killed in Israel's raids, Palestinian officials said. More than 500 rockets fired from Gaza have hit Israel, killing three people and injuring dozens.
Israel unleashed its massive air campaign on Wednesday, killing a leading militant of the Hamas Islamist group that
controls Gaza and rejects Israel's existence, with the declared goal of deterring gunmen in the coastal enclave from launching
rockets that have plagued its southern communities for years.
Rocket warning sirens sounded in Tel Aviv on Saturday for a third day The Jewish state has since launched more than 950 air strikes on the coastal Palestinian territory, targeting weaponry and flattening militant homes and headquarters.
The raids continued past midnight on Sunday, with warships bombarding targets from the sea.
An air raid targeted a building in Gaza City housing the offices of local Arab media, wounding three journalists from al Quds television, a station Israel sees as pro-Hamas, witnesses said.
Two other predawn attacks on houses in the Jebalya refugee camp killed one child and wounded 12 other people, medical officials said.
Egypt's president Mohamed Morsi had suggested a ceasefire was close These attacks followed a defiant statement by Hamas military spokesman Abu Ubaida.
"This round of confrontation will not be the last against the Zionist enemy and it is only the beginning."
The masked gunman dressed in military fatigues insisted that despite Israel's blows Hamas "is still strong enough to destroy the enemy."
An Israeli attack on Saturday destroyed the house of a Hamas commander near the Egyptian border.
A plume of thick black smoke is seen rising from Gaza City Israeli aircraft also bombed Hamas government buildings in Gaza, including the offices of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and a police headquarters.
Israel has said it will keep schools in its southern region closed as a precaution to avoid casualties from rocket strikes, which have reached as far as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in the past few days.
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