Smoke from an explosion rises in northern Gaza Strip, as seen from a southern Israel location on Sunday

AP Deir al-Balah (Gaza Strip)

Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip killed at least 30 people on Sunday, including six children at a water collection point, local health officials said, despite attempts by mediators to bring about a ceasefire. Israel and Hamas appeared no closer to a breakthrough in indirect talks meant to pause the war.

Israel says it will end the war only once Hamas surrenders, disarms and goes into exile, something it refuses to do. Hamas says it is willing to free all the remaining 50 hostages, about 20 said to be alive, in exchange for an end to the war and the full withdrawal of Israeli forces.

Throughout the war in Gaza, violence has surged in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Funerals were held there on Sunday for two Palestinians, including Palestinian-American Sayfollah Musallet, killed by Israeli settlers, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. In central Gaza, officials at Al-Awda Hospital said it received 10 bodies after an Israeli strike on a water collection point in nearby Nuseirat. Among the dead were six children.

Ramadan Nassar, a witness who lives in the area, told The AP that around 20 children and 14 adults had been lined up to get water. The Israeli military said it was targeting a militant but a technical error made its munitions fall "dozens of metres from the target."  In Nuseirat, a small boy leaned over a body bag to say goodbye to a friend. "There is no safe place," resident Raafat Fanouna said.