Dozens of people are reported to have been killed by a huge explosion at Jabalia refugee

camp in northern Gaza.

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said at least 50 people were killed
and 150 wounded by an Israeli air strike, which it denounced as a
"horrific massacre".
Pictures showed people climbing through several large craters and
searching for survivors inside wrecked buildings.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which has
been bombarding Gaza for three weeks.
Earlier, the military said its ground forces were engaged in "fierce
battles" with Hamas fighters deep inside the Gaza Strip and had killed
dozens of them when it attacked an outpost in the north.
Hamas said its fighters had been using anti-tank missiles and machine-
guns against the advancing troops.
Israel has said it is the "second phase" of its war to eliminate Hamas,
which began after an unprecedented cross-border attack by gunmen
from Gaza on 7 October in which 1,400 people were killed and another
240 taken hostage.
Gaza's health ministry says more than 8,500 people have been killed in
the territory since then, while supplies of food, water, fuel and
medicine for its 2.2 million residents are dangerously low because of a
siege imposed by Israel.

Tuesday's explosion in Jabalia reportedly destroyed several residential

buildings in the centre of the densely populated camp.
AFP news agency reported that its video footage from the scene
showed at least 47 bodies being pulled from the rubble.
A vast column of black smoke was clearly visible from inside Israel at
about the time the first reports came in.
One weapons expert said the largest crater was consistent with those
caused by the sorts of bombs the Israeli air force was using to hit
targets buried deep underground.
Jabalia resident Ragheb Aqal said it had felt like there was "an
earthquake".
"I went and saw the destruction... homes buried under the rubble and
body parts and martyrs and wounded in huge numbers," he told AFP.
The medical director of the Indonesian Hospital, in nearby Beit Lahia,
also said it had received dozens of dead and hundreds of wounded
people.
One of the doctors, Subaib Idais, told Reuters news agency: "They
were just in their homes, they were targeted while they were in their
homes... All martyrs, children, women, elderly."
"We have no idea what to do. There are injured everywhere. All the
volunteers went down hand-in-hand just to help people," he added.