Palestinian officials have said Israeli forces have killed at least 35 Palestinians across Gaza as they battled Hamas but brief pauses in fighting have allowed medics to conduct a third day of polio vaccinations for children, Reuters reports.

Among those killed were four women in the southern city of Rafah and eight people near a hospital in Gaza City in the north, the Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said.

Later, an Israeli airstrike killed nine Palestinians inside a house near Omar Al-Mokhtar Street in the middle of Gaza City, medics said.

Another strike hit near a college in Sheikh Radwan, a northern suburb of the city.

Others were killed in separate air strikes across the territory, medics said.

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