ISRAEL launched waves of deadly air strikes across Gaza and Lebanon today killing at least 25 people in the Palestinian enclave’s central area.

Attacks in Lebanon’s north-east killed at least 24 people, the state-run National News Agency reported.

Officials at al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza said they continued to receive bodies following a barrage of Israeli air strikes on the Nuseirat camp that began overnight, leaving 21 dead, including an 18-month-old toddler and his 10-year-old sister.

Attacks that hit a motorcycle in Zuwaida and a house in Deir al-Balah, also in central Gaza, killed four more people today, the hospital officials said.

Doctors without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday that one of its medics at Kamal Adwan Hhospital in Beit Lahiya had been detained last Saturday by Israeli forces.

It called for the protection of Dr Mohammed Obeid and all medical staff who “are facing horrific violence as they try to provide care.”

Israel has claimed that the hospital is being used by Hamas for military purposes and that “dozens of terrorists” are hiding in the building, which health officials deny.

In Lebanon, four air strikes hit different villages across the north east. In the Bekaa Valley town of Younine, rescuers were still searching for survivors in the rubble of a building believed to have housed 20 people, the National News Agency reported.

In recent days, Israel has intensified air strikes on the north-eastern city of Baalbek and nearby villages, as well as various parts of southern Lebanon, prompting roughly 60,000 people to flee their homes, according to regional MP Hussein Haj Hassan.

In the north-eastern Baalbek-Hermel region, eight people were killed when a home was hit in the village of Amhaz and two more were killed in the village of Taraya.

Israel’s military has said that its operation in Lebanon is targeting Hezbollah’s military infrastructure, just as it claims that its attacks in Gaza target Hamas.

Israeli planes also pounded Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh overnight, destroying dozens of buildings in several neighbourhoods.

There were no immediate reports of casualties.

Jens Laerke of the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Aid said there had been a “wave of displacement” in Lebanon in recent days as tens of thousands of people have fled following warnings from Israel’s military of imminent attacks.