A toddler has been killed and his two brothers wounded in the latest Israeli airstrike on Gaza, emergency services said.
The 18-month-old Palestinian boy died in a strike east of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, spokesman Adham Abu Selmiya told the AFP news agency.
Health ministry spokesman Ashraf al Qudra said the two wounded boys, aged four and five, were "in critical condition".
The bombardment of Gaza by Israel entered a new phase overnight, with Israel shelling the Palestinian territory from the sea, as well as continuing its airstrikes.
Forty-eight Palestinians, about half of them civilians, including 13 children, have now been killed in Israel's raids, Palestinian officials said.
Rocket warning sirens sounded in Tel Aviv on Saturday for a third day Militants in Gaza resumed firing rockets into Israel this morning, with at least one landing in Ashkelon in southern Israel.
More than 500 rockets fired from Gaza have hit Israel since the recent violence flared on Wednesday, killing three people and injuring dozens.
Two buildings housing local Arab media in Gaza were among the targets in the latest airstrikes.
Among the buildings hit was a media centre housing the offices of al Quds TV, often a voicepiece for Hamas. Three journalists were wounded.
Both buildings also contained offices used by foreign journalists, including Sky News.
Egypt's president Mohamed Morsi had suggested a ceasefire was close "I think that this demonstrates just how dangerous and complex with aerial bombardment is," said Sky's Sam Kiley.
The airstrikes come as Egypt President Mohamed Morsi suggested that there could be a ceasefire soon.
Two other pre-dawn attacks on houses in the Jebalya refugee camp killed one child and wounded 12 other people, medical officials said.
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".
A plume of thick black smoke is seen rising from Gaza City On Saturday Israeli aircraft 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.
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.
Israel says it is trying to stop militants in the coastal enclave from launching rockets that have plagued its southern communities for years.
The Jewish state has since launched more than 950 air strikes since Wednesday.
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