Israeli forces have pressed deeper into areas of the central and southern Gaza Strip as they battled Hamas fighters, while Palestinian health officials say that Israeli strikes had killed at least 27 people across the enclave, Reuters reports.

In the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, a strike on a house killed 11 people, including children and women, the bodies of some of whom had been burnt, according to the territory’s Civil Emergency Service.

Medics said another strike killed six people, including a local journalist, in a house in Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, medics said while five others were killed in separate strikes in the south.

Later today, five Palestinians were killed and several wounded in an Israeli airstrike that hit people near a square in Khan Younis, health officials said.