Eleven people, including children, were killed and dozens were injured at dawn today after Israeli warplanes bombed homes in Rafah and Nuseirat in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.

In Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, six people, most of them children, were killed and several others were injured after the Israeli occupation warplanes bombed a residential apartment belonging to the Subh family in the Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood of the city.

Five people, including three children, were also killed in an Israeli bombing of a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp and another house in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

Israeli occupation artillery bombed various areas in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip.

Its warplanes also attacked several areas east of Gaza City, al-Maghazi camp, al-Shuja’iya, and Jabalia camp in the Gaza Strip.

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