“The scale of Israel’s air campaign in Gaza is unprecedented,” the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (Acled) said in a post on the social media platform X.

Acled recorded more than 600 air strike events across more than 50 locations in Gaza in October alone.

“Despite Gaza’s small size of just 360 square kilometers, this represents the highest number of air strike events recorded within a single month for any country or territory in the Middle East since 2020,” the group added.

Israel began its latest air campaign on the besieged enclave after the Hamas-led 7 October attacks killed about 1,400 Israelis, with around 240 hostages being seized.

More than 10,300 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli bombardment over the past month, including over 4,000 children.

The relentless Israeli bombing campaign has flattened entire neighbourhoods and targeted civilian infrastructure, hospitals, mosques, churches and schools sheltering thousands of displaced people.

The update from Acled is just the latest statistic to capture the unprecedented bloodshed being experienced by Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.

According to the Palestinian health ministry, on average, a Palestinian child was killed every 10 minutes over the past month.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has repeatedly called for an immediate ceasefire, and on Monday warned that the Gaza Strip was becoming a “graveyard for children”.

“I think the Americans are dreaming a lot,” said Ghazi Hamad, in an interview with Al Jazeera Arabic.

“The Americans who failed in Iraq, who failed in Afghanistan, who failed in Somalia … now they want to restructure Gaza?” he asked.

Hamad stated that any change in the governance of Gaza was an internal Palestinian matter, adding that Hamas would be involved in any decision.

He also warned the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank not to make a deal with the US and Israel at the expense of Hamas, as the question of what happens in Gaza if Hamas is defeated grows.

“You must not cooperate with the Americans,” Hamad said, addressing the PA.

“And don’t [go into Gaza] on the back of the American tank.”

He added that PA President Mahmoud Abbas should refuse any US attempts for it to takeover Gaza, but added that a lack of public comments on the matter from the PA “raises a question mark”.

In response to Israeli military claims that its forces were in the heart of Gaza City, Hamad asked for the Israelis to show evidence of their advances.

He also added that the Israelis did not want to rescue the captives being held in the Gaza Strip. Israel has publicly stated that the rescue of the captives is a priority of their military operation.

“IDF forces are in the heart of Gaza City. They came from the north and the south. They stormed it in full coordination between land, air and sea forces,” Gallant said in a televised news conference on Tuesday.

“They are manoeuvring on foot, armoured vehicles and tanks, along with military engineers from all directions and they have one target — Hamas terrorists in Gaza, their infrastructure, their commanders, bunkers, communication rooms. They are tightening the noose around Gaza City,” he stated.

Gallant described Gaza City as “the biggest terrorism base built by man”. He added that below the city there were kilometres (miles) of tunnels that ran under schools and hospitals and that housed weapon depots, communication rooms and hideouts for fighters.

Asked about plans for who would rule Gaza once the war was over, Gallant said: “I can tell you who will not govern (Gaza). It will not be Hamas, and it will not be Israel. Everything else is a possibility.”

He stated there would not be a humanitarian pause without bringing back captives held by Hamas.

“We will continue until victory and until the hostages are returned home,” the defense minister added.

IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said during an evening press conference on Tuesday in just one month of its military operation against Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces delivered strikes on more than 14,000 targets in the Gaza Strip.

In his words, the IDF demolished over 100 tunnel entrances and destroyed more than 4,000 weapons of various types.

The spokesman claimed that the IDF also killed many Hamas fighters, including in the rank of commanders.

Israel has launched air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip following a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7.

At least 10,000 Palestinians, including more than 4,000 children and over 2,700 women, have been killed since then. The Israeli death toll, meanwhile, is nearly 1,500, according to official figures.

Besides the large number of casualties and massive displacements, basic supplies are running low for Gaza’s 2.3 million residents due to the Israeli siege.

The Israeli military is operating deep inside the encircled Gaza and is increasing pressure on Hamas hour after hour, Netanyahu said in a televised address to the nation on Tuesday.

“The fighting in the Gaza Strip continues with a force that Hamas has never known before. Gaza City is surrounded, we are operating inside it, we are increasing the pressure on Hamas day by day, hour by hour,” he stated.

The prime minister claimed the Israeli military had killed thousands of radicals on the ground and beneath the ground during the operation in the Gaza Strip.

“Among them, we have destroyed a number of vicious killers who carried out that terrible massacre on Black Saturday a month ago (October 7). We have destroyed dozens of Hamas bases, headquarters, tunnels and training camps,” he went on to say.

“Hamas is realizing that we are reaching the sites they thought we would never be able to reach,” the prime minister added.

He warned there would be “no ceasefire” without the release of hostages.

“I suppose we’ll check the circumstances in order to enable goods, humanitarian goods, to come in, or hostages, individual hostages, to leave. But I don’t think there’s going to be a general ceasefire.”

He once again demanded that the Red Cross be given access to the captives.

Hamas fighters killed an estimated 1,400 people during surprise attacks against villages in southern Israel on October 7, and the group claimed to have taken enough hostages to secure the release of all Palestinians held in Israeli jails.

Four of the hostages, including two Americans, have been released, and Israeli troops rescued a soldier who had been captured by Hamas.

The group announced in a statement on Tuesday that it was prepared to release 12 foreign nationals, but it couldn’t do so because of Israeli airstrikes and ground attacks.