Large explosions lit up the sky above Gaza City overnight, as Israel mobilised 16,000 more reservists to the conflict.
The sound of explosions and planes flying overhead were heard across the city, though there were no immediate reports of casualties.
The continued bombardment came as Israel announced it was mobilising thousands of extra troops.
"The army has issued 16,000 additional mobilisation orders to allow troops on the ground to rest, which takes the total number of reservists to 86,000," said the spokeswoman.
Israel says it is close to destroying all Hamas cross-border attack tunnels Israel also revealed it was days away from achieving its core goal of destroying all Islamist guerrilla cross-border attack tunnels.
It has ordered its ground forces to focus on locating and destroying a warren of tunnels with which Hamas has menaced its southern towns and army bases.
Major-General Sami Turgeman, chief of Israeli forces in Gaza, said they were "but a few days away from destroying all the attack tunnels".
The army said 32 of the secret passages had been found so far and half of them blown up.
Three Israeli soldiers were killed on Wednesday by a booby trap detonated as they uncovered a tunnel shaft, the army said.
The Israeli military said it would also continue to target Hamas command centres, rocket launchers and weapons arsenals.
Meanwhile Hamas' military leader Mohammed Deif has said the militants would not cease fire until their demands are met.
Hamas has demanded that Israel and Egypt lift a border blockade they imposed on Gaza after Hamas seized the territory in 2007.
More than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed in three weeks of fighting, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry.
Fifty-two Israeli soldiers and three civilians have died on the Israeli side.
The United Nations says civilians make up more than three-fourths of the dead and a majority of the wounded.
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