Medics said that at least 22 Palestinians were killed in Israeli military attacks across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, while Israeli forces clashed with Hamas fighters in the city of Rafah, near the border with Egypt.

The violence in Gaza came as fighting raged between Israel and the forces of the Lebanese Hezbollah group allied with Iran across Israel's borders with Lebanon, a parallel conflict that raises fears of an all-out war in the east.

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Residents and a statement published by the Hamas and Jihad movements reported that Israeli tanks advanced in the northern and western areas of Rafah, where they clashed with fighters from the two armed groups. Residents said that the Israeli army blew up several homes in the eastern and central areas of the city.

The armed wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad said that the fighters attacked the Israeli forces with anti-tank missiles and mortar shells, while detonating bombs planted in advance.

Palestinian health officials said that Israeli air attacks on the center and south of the Strip caused the death of 22 people. They added that six Palestinians, including three women, were killed in one of the attacks

On a house in Nuseirat, one of the eight refugee camps in the Strip.

There has been no comment yet from the Israeli army.

Israeli air and artillery attacks displaced most of Gaza's 2.3 million residents, with much of the Palestinian enclave reduced to rubble. The Gaza Ministry of Health said that 41,467 Palestinians were killed and 95,921 wounded in the war that has been going on for nearly a year.

The bloodiest war in the decades-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinians was sparked when Hamas militants launched an attack on southern Israel on October 7, which Israeli statistics indicate killed 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages.

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Tuesday that President Joe Biden is determined to reach a ceasefire agreement in Gaza and recover hostages held by Hamas, and at the same time seeks to calm tensions on the border between Israel and Lebanon.

He added in an interview with MSNBC, hours before Biden addressed the United Nations General Assembly for the last time as president of the United States, "He certainly did not give up."