Tensions between Israel and the Islamic Hamas movement, the worst since 2014, has continued unabated in the Gaza Strip with no sign of any ceasefire between the two sides to end the violence.

Overnight and at predawn on Friday, the tit-for-tat violent military confrontations between the two sides were intensified. Hamas militants fired more barrages of rockets into Israel, and Israeli fighter jets kept striking on the enclave. The Hamas-run Ministry of Health said that 122 Palestinians have been killed, including 31 children and 20 women, and 900 others injured since Monday.