Thousands more Israeli troops are to join the fight in Gaza, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promising to destroy Hamas tunnels "with or without a ceasefire".
Some 16,000 additional troops are joining the operation in Gaza "to allow troops on the ground to rest", said an army spokeswoman.
The boost takes the number of reservists involved to 86,000.
It comes as the Commissioner General for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) warned that Gaza is on a "precipice".
Israel says it is close to destroying all Hamas cross-border attack tunnels Pierre Krahenbuhl told the UN Security Council he had witnessed the "catastrophic human cost" of the conflict, in which more than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed.
He said the estimated 240,000 people who have sought refuge in UN shelters are facing "dire conditions" as a result of the "extensive and often disproportionate use of force."
Strikes on Gaza continued on Thursday UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos told the Council the total number of displaced people now stands at 440,000, roughly 25% of Gaza's population.
Israel launched Operation Protective Edge on July 8 with the stated intention of ending persistent Hamas rocket attacks.
It later ordered its ground forces to locate and destroy a warren of cross-border tunnels which it says Hamas has used to infiltrate southern towns and army bases.
The school where Palestinian officials say at least 16 died in shelling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting on Thursday he was determined to finish the job "with or without a ceasefire," as attacks on both sides continued.
He said: "I wont agree to any proposal that will not enable the Israeli military to complete this important task for the sake of Israel's security."
The army said 32 secret passages had been found so far and half of them blown up, with the end of the operation apparently just days away.
Three Israeli soldiers were killed on Wednesday by a booby trap detonated as they uncovered a tunnel shaft, the army said, bringing the total military death toll to 56.
Three civilians have also been killed in Israeli, including a Thai national.
The locations of refugee camps in the Gaza Strip Hamas' military leader Mohammed Deif has said the militants will not cease firing until their demands are met.
They want Israel and Egypt to lift a crippling border blockade imposed after Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007.
Meanwhile investigations continue into Wednesday's shelling of a market and a UN-run school housing more than 3,000 refugees.
The school attack left 16 people dead, including children.
Israel has said it is looking into the case, but has repeated it does not have a policy of targeting civilians.
It was the second attack on one of the UN's 80 schools, which are designated safe zones.
The strike on the Shejaiza market is said to have killed at least 17 people UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the school shelling was "outrageous" and "unjustifiable".
He said: "Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children."
A carefully-worded White House statement also "condemned the shelling," 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 three days later, without needing White House approval.
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