Deadly strikes were reported earlier today in the overcrowded Gaza border town of Rafah — dubbed a “pressure cooker of despair” by the UN — as international mediators readied a new push to seal a tentative truce deal between Israel and Hamas, AFP reports.

An AFP journalist in the city heard powerful explosions shortly after midnight on Saturday, with the Gaza health ministry later reporting 14 people killed in two strikes there.

The ministry said more than 100 people in total were killed across the territory overnight.

Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have fled south to Rafah since the outbreak of the escalation, with the former city of 200,000 now housing more than half of Gaza’s two million-plus population, a WHO representative said Friday.