DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians, including four children, in the Gaza Strip, while 24 others were fatally shot on their way to an aid distribution site, Palestinian hospital officials and witnesses said Saturday.

Israel’s defense minister said he told the military to advance plans for what he called a “humanitarian city” built on the ruins of Rafah in southern Gaza, according to reports in Israeli media.

Talks aimed at securing a ceasefire in Gaza are stalling over the extent of Israeli forces' withdrawal from the Palestinian enclave, Palestinian and Israeli sources familiar with the negotiations in Doha said on Saturday.

The Israeli military says five soldiers have been killed in an attack in northern Gaza. Health officials in the Palestinian territory say Israeli strikes killed 51 people.

Aref al-Jaabari (2nd-R), former governor of Hebron and head of the Jaabari family in the area, attends a meeting with elders of the Jaabari family to deny media reports it was ready to break off from the Palestinian Authority and sign a peace deal with Israel as a separate emirate,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he wanted peace with Palestinians but described any future independent state as a platform to destroy Israel and for that reason sovereign power of security must remain with Israel.

As talks for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip resume, Palestinians in the battered enclave say they are desperate for deal to end the war between Israel and Hamas.

Forcibly relocating Palestimians from the Gaza Strip would be a crime against humanity, according to our legal expert.