Israel is calling up thousands more reservists to the conflict in Gaza and says it is a "few days" away from destroying Hamas's network of attack tunnels.
"The army has issued 16,000 additional mobilisation orders to allow troops on the ground to rest, which takes the total number of reservists to 86,000," said an Israeli army spokeswoman.
Israel has ordered its ground forces to focus on locating and destroying a warren of cross-border tunnels with which Hamas has menaced its southern towns and army bases.
Major-General Sami Turgeman, chief of Israeli forces in Gaza, said they were "but a few days away from destroying all the attack tunnels".
Israel says it is close to destroying all Hamas cross-border attack tunnels The army said 32 of the secret passages had been found so far and half of them blown up.
Three Israeli soldiers were killed on Wednesday by a booby trap detonated as they uncovered a tunnel shaft, the army said.
The Israeli military said it would also continue to target Hamas command centres, rocket launchers and weapons arsenals.
The bombardment of Gaza City continued overnight, though there were no immediate reports of casualties.
Hamas's military leader Mohammed Deif has said the militants will not cease fire until their demands are met.
The school where Palestine officials say at least 17 died in shelling The group has demanded that Israel and Egypt lift a border blockade they imposed on Gaza after Hamas seized the territory in 2007.
Nearly 1,300 Palestinians have died in three weeks of fighting, according to the UN's office for humanitarian affairs (OCHA). Gaza officials put the figure at more than 1,360.
Civilians make up two-thirds of the dead and most of the wounded.
Condemnation also continues over Wednesday's shelling of a UN-run school housing more than 3,000 refugees in the Jebalya area of Gaza, in a day where 116 Palestinians were killed.
The United Nations' 80 camps are meant to be safe zones for the estimated 245,000 people who have fled their homes.
The locations of refugee camps in the Gaza Strip Furious UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the school shelling "outrageous" and "unjustifiable".
"Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children," said the UN chief.
A carefully-worded White House statement said it "condemned the shelling" - which killed at least 16 - but did not mention Israel explicitly.
The Pentagon later confirmed it had agreed to an "emergency" Israeli request to stock up on grenades and mortar rounds from a store it has kept in the country for several years.
Pentagon spokesman Admiral John Kirby said the request was received on July 20 and approved the three days later, without needing White House approval.
Israel meanwhile has said it is investigating the school shelling incident and repeated it does not have a policy of targeting civilians.
The strike on the Shejaiza market is said to have killed at least 17 people Foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor described the incident as "tragic" but blamed Hamas' "criminal entrenchment within civilian populations".
The UN has reported instances of militants stashing weapons in some of the schools.
At least 17 Palestinians also died on Wednesday, and 200 were wounded, in an attack on a market in the Shejaiza neighbourhood between Gaza City and the Israeli border.
Fifty-six Israeli soldiers and three civilians have died in total on the Israeli side since the latest violence began at the start of July.
The country's military said 81 rockets fell in Israel on Wednesday, with nine shot down by its missile defence system.
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