Israeli ground forces are blowing up buildings in the east of Rafah as artillery targeted western and central parts of the city in attacks overnight and into the early hours of this morning, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa and Al Jazeera Arabic.

Among those killed were two paramedic staff with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) who died when their ambulance was bombed by Israeli forces in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan area as they carried out their “humanitarian duty”, the organisation said.

Wafa reports that three people were also killed in an Israeli strike on a home in Tal as-Sultan on Wednesday evening, and at least five people were injured when their car was hit by Israeli forces as they travelled west of Rafah.

Israeli attack helicopters fired missiles at the Zeitoun neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, and dead and wounded people were recovered from the rubble of a separate house attacked in the east of the city, Wafa reports.