Deaths as Israeli tanks shell Gaza hospital

 
Israeli tanks have shelled a hospital in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least five people and wounding at least another 50.
Al Jazeera's Stephanie Dekker, reporting from Gaza, said according to early reports the third floor of the al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah had been hit by at least three tank shells on Monday.
There was no let-up in the Israeli offensive, with another 31 Gazans killed in a series of strikes on Monday even as the US and the UN demanded an "immediate ceasefire".
And Israel said troops killed 10 Hamas fighters after they came over the border through a network of tunnels that the army says it has been trying to destroy in an intensive four-day ground operation.
On Sunday, at least 72 people were killed in central Gaza during an Israeli assault that destroyed much of the Shujayea district and left charred bodies lying in the streets.
Medics pulled another 68 bodies from the rubble early on Monday, Ashraf al-Qudra, Gaza's emergency services spokesman, said.
Elsewhere, hundreds of people could be seen moving out of the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun.
Hospital doctor's account
Al-Aqsa Hospital is the third to be hit by Israeli tank fire since Israel launched its ground offensive in Gaza four days ago.
Al Jazeera's Dekker said the scene of the hospital shelling was an area "where a lot of people had been fleeing to".
"There's extremely heavy shelling going on in that neighbourhood. This is an area you'd think would be relatively safe," she said.