The death toll in Gaza during the 11-week attack stands at 20,258, while 53,688 others are injured.

At least 201 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 370 injured in Gaza by Israeli forces in the past 24 hours, as the assault on the besieged enclave approaches its twelfth week.

A bomb attack on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza killed at least eight Palestinians, including children, on Saturday, while another attack on the Jabalia camp is believed to have killed dozens more.

The death toll in Gaza during 11 week attack The Palestinian Ministry of Health said on Saturday that 20,258 people were injured and 53,688 others were injured.

Thousands more bodies are believed to be trapped under the rubble on the other side of the strip.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum reported from Rafah that Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip had “become much more intense.”

“The bombardment and shelling of the northern parts of the territory continue as decomposed bodies have been found in the ground in these areas after days of fighting,” he said.

Al Jazeera TV said the decomposed bodies, some of which lay unattended in the rubble and streets for 20 days, were finally buried by Gaza’s civil defense team on Saturday.

“Not a safe place”

Almost all of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced and forced to live in flimsy tents or on the streets in the southern part of the Gaza Strip widespread hunger was reported.

Israel has long been calling on the Palestinians to do this Leave the northern areas However, the armed forces are also bombing neighborhoods in the center and south of the tiny coastal enclave in the Gaza Strip.

“Where shall we go? There is no safe place,” Ziad, a paramedic and father of six, told Reuters by telephone.

“They ask people to go there [the central Gaza city of] Deir el-Balah, where there is bombardment day and night.”

Israel said 144 of its soldiers had been killed since it launched its ground attack on October 20, two weeks after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on its territory that killed 1,147 people and brought 240 prisoners into the enclave.

More than 100 prisoners are believed to still be in the Gaza Strip after several people were exchanged during a week-long ceasefire last month. According to the Israeli government, 22 of those still living in the Gaza Strip are dead.

Hamas said Saturday that because of the Israeli bombing it had lost contact with a group it said was responsible for five of the Israeli prisoners.

There is a possibility that the prisoners were killed in an Israeli raid, said Abu Ubaida, spokesman for Hamas’ armed wing, the Qassam Brigades.

There was no immediate reaction from Israeli authorities to Hamas’ statement.

A committee set up by the Israeli government, based on various sources of information, declared some hostages dead in absentia.

Hamas has not confirmed these reports, but has warned Israel that “time is running out” for the prisoners.

Osama Hamdan, Hamas’ representative in Beirut, said on Saturday there would be no negotiations with Israel over prisoner exchanges until the attack on Gaza stopped.

“If Israel wants to bring its prisoners back alive, it must end the war,” he said.