Gaza deaths rise

60 more killed including children as Israel expands Rafah offensive

- CHRIS HUGHES

AT LEAST 60 Palestinians were killed in Gaza over the weekend and yesterday, including three children and a woman, local authorities said.

Meanwhile fierce cross-border fighting between Hezbollah and Israel sent thousands fleeing to underground shelters. Two shepherds died in the fighting in southern Lebanon.

A strike in Gaza's Bureij refugee camp late on Sunday killed four and a second on the Nuseirat camp killed seven.

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has reacted against a three-phase peace deal suggested by the US, which Hamas had responded to positively.