Medics have said that Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed 20 Palestinians, including six people in attacks on tents housing displaced families, Reuters reports.

Four people, two of them children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent encampment in the coastal area of Al-Mawasi, which is designated as a humanitarian zone, while two died in temporary shelters in the southern city of Rafah and another in drone fire, Gaza health officials said.

In the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, medics said an Israeli missile struck a house, killing at least two people and wounding several others.

An Israeli airstrike killed four people in the Nuseirat camp in the central area of the coastal enclave, they added.

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