Israeli airstrikes in The Gaza Strip killed 12 people, according to Palestinian medical officials, as the Israel-Hamas war continues unabated.

Airstrikes killed six people in Nuseirat and another four in Bureij, two refugee camps built in central Gaza.

Two other people were killed in a strike on Gaza’s main north-south highway, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah, which received all 12 bodies.

Israel is also at war with the militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon, where its ground troops have advanced further north.

Meanwhile, police in Israel arrested three suspects after flares were fired at the prime minister Binyamin Netanyahuhis private residence in the coastal city of Caesarea.

Authorities said Mr. Netanyahu and his family were not at the residence when two flares were fired at it overnight and were not injured.

A drone launched by Hezbollah struck the residence last month, also while Mr. Netanyahu and his family were away.

Police did not provide details about the suspects behind the fires, but officials pointed to critics of Mr. Netanyahu’s domestic policies.

Israel’s largely ceremonial President Yitzhak Herzog condemned the incident and warned against “an escalation of violence in the public sphere”.

Mr Netanyahu has faced months of mass protests over his handling of the hostage crisis sparked by the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza.

Critics blame Mr Netanyahu for security and intelligence failures that allowed the attack to take place and for failing to reach an agreement with Hamas to release dozens of hostages still held in Gaza.

Israelis gathered again in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening to demand a cease-fire agreement to return them.

Meanwhile, Justice Minister Yariv Levin took advantage of the blistering attack to call for a revival of his plans to overhaul Israel’s justice system, which sparked months of mass protests before the war and remains deeply divisive.

“The time has come to provide full support for the restoration of the justice and law enforcement systems and to end the anarchy, anger, denial and attempts to injure the Prime Minister,” he said in a statement.

Supporters have said the changes to the judiciary aim to strengthen democracy by circumscribing the authority of unelected judges and handing more power to elected officials.

Opponents see the review as a power grab by Mr Netanyahu, who is on trial on corruption charges, and an attack on a key watchdog.

The war between Israel and Hamas began after Palestinian militants entered Israel in October 2023, killing about 1,200 people – mostly civilians – and kidnapping another 250. About 100 hostages are still in Gaza, about a third of them believed to be they are dead

Gaza’s Health Ministry says an estimated 43,800 Palestinians have been killed in the war.

The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but said women and children accounted for more than half of the deaths.

About 90 percent of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million Palestinians have been displaced, and large areas of the territory have been flattened by Israeli bombardment and ground operations.

The 10 elected members of the UN Security Council on Thursday circulated a draft resolution calling for “an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” in Gaza. The US, Israel’s closest ally, holds the key if the council passes the resolution. – AP