Gaza devastation laid bare in apocalpytic photos after relentless Israeli bombs

Pictures show neighbourhoods in Gaza almost destroyed after Israel launched 250 airstrikes in just one hour.

It comes after an Israeli defense official promise the strip will become a ‘tent city’ with every building to be demolished.

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Images reveal a countless number of homes and vehicles have been reduced to rubble as emergency services continue to dig for survivors.

At least 140 Palestinian children have been killed since Saturday, human rights group Defence for Children International Palestine has confirmed.

More than 200 locations were targeted throughout Gaza, killing more than 700 people and injuring 4,000 more.

Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defense minister, said ‘all restraints on fighters have been released’ and promised an intensification of fighting.

‘Hamas wanted a change and it will get one. What was in Gaza will no longer be,’ he said.

‘We started the offensive from the air, later on we will also come from the ground. We’ve been controlling the area since Day Two and we are on the offensive. It will only intensify.

A view of the rubble of buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Jabalia, Gaza strip, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Israel has launched intense airstrikes in Gaza after the territory's militant rulers carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel Saturday, killing hundreds of people and taking captives. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in the airstrikes. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) — A view of the rubble of buildings hit by an Israeli airstrike, in Jabalia (Picture: AP)

GAZA CITY, GAZA - OCTOBER 11: People are seen around destroyed buildings and debris at the Jabalia neighborhood after an Israeli airstrike that has been going on for five days in Gaza City, Gaza on October 11, 2023. (Photo by Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu via Getty Images) — People are seen around destroyed buildings and debris at the Jabalia neighborhood (Picture: Anadolu)

This picture taken on October 11, 2023 shows an aerial view of buildings destroyed by Israeli air strikes in the Jabalia camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City. Israel declared war on Hamas on October 8 following a shock land, air and sea assault by the Gaza-based Islamists. The death toll from the shock cross-border assault by Hamas militants rose to 1,200, making it the deadliest attack in the country's 75-year history, while Gaza officials reported more than 900 people killed as Israel pounded the territory with air strikes. (Photo by Yahya HASSOUNA / AFP) (Photo by YAHYA HASSOUNA/AFP via Getty Images) — Israel declared war on Hamas on October 8 following a shock land, air and sea assault by the Gaza-based Islamists (Picture: AFP)

The al-furqan neighbourhood was particularly targeted, with Israeli defense officials claiming it is a ‘nest of terror’.

The area – named after a local mosque – was allegedly used by Hamas to launch the attacks on Israel.

The strikes destroyed the Hamas-linked Islamic university, and hit 80 Hamas targets in the Beit Hanoun area of the northeastern Gaza Strip, including two bank branches used to ‘fund terrorism’.