World powers are to meet over the spiraling violence as the Palestinian death toll from the Israeli air campaign hit 172 with another 1,230 people wounded,media reports said.
Exodus from their homes and fearing for their lives, about 17,000 people have taken shelter in installations of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, the agency said in a statement.
As the death toll rose, the Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights said most of the victims were civilians, putting their number at more than 130, among them 35 children and 26 women.
It also said Israel had destroyed 147 homes and badly damaged hundreds of others.Media agencies
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