Al Jazeera Arabic reports that the casualties occurred in an Israeli bomb attack on a house in the Al Nasr neighbourhood of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza.

The bombing came as Palestinian media reported a quadcopter assault on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, as well as attacks from a gunboat on the al-Mawasi area in the south of the Strip.

Earlier in the night, Israeli forces also shelled the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City and blew up houses in besieged areas north of the enclave.

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