The Gaza Strip’s sole power plant shut down due to a large fire caused by Israeli shelling on Tuesday morning, as at least 108 Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli strikes from land, air, and sea since midnight.

The Gaza Strip's sole power plant shut down due to a large fire caused by Israeli shelling on Tuesday morning, as at least 108 Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli strikes from land, air, and sea since midnight, Maan news agency reported.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health on Tuesday afternoon said that more than 100 Palestinians had been killed in the Israeli bombardment on Tuesday morning alone as hundreds of thousands fled their homes across the Strip.

Earlier statements from the ministry had given the number of dead at around 57 for the morning, but after consultation with hospitals across the Strip the total was revised to more than 106 dead and hundreds more injured over the course of 14 hours.

Since then, at least two more have died in Israeli attacks.

The Ministry of Health also said that as of Monday night nearly 5,000 homes had been completely destroyed, while tens of thousands more had been partially destroyed.

The United Nations, meanwhile, estimated that more than 215,000 Gazans had fled their home, or more than 10 percent of the besieged coastal enclave's total population.

The strikes brought the death toll in Gaza to 1,200, with more than 6,500 injured in 22 days of Israeli assault, as the Zionist occupation army said it launched strikes on 70 "targets" across the Strip.