At least three people were killed and several injured in early morning bombing raids by Israel on a two residential houses in Rafah city’s Khirbet al-Adas and al-Shaout neighbourhoods, Al Jazeera reports, citing Palestinian state news agency Wafa.

Israeli forces also stormed the Nasser Medical Complex in the west of Khan Younis where they arrested staff and displaced people sheltering inside the compound, Wafa said.

Fierce clashes were underway in the vicinity of Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza City, including shelling by Israeli artillery, with reports of people wounded.

On Tuesday evening, 12 people, including children, were reported killed in an Israeli airstrike on tented accommodation in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.