Mohammad al-Mughair of the Gaza’s civil defence agency has told AFP that 52 people were killed across the territory, including 17 in a strike in front of a medical point in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

Mughair said eight children and two women were among the dead following the strike in Deir el-Balah, adding Israeli aircraft targeted “a gathering of citizens in front of a medical point”.

He detailed other attacks:

• 27 were killed in bombardment across the territory, including 15 people in five separate strikes in the area of Gaza City
• Four people were killed and several were injured in a pre-dawn air strike on a family home in Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza
• Three more, including a woman, were killed by Israeli gunfire on civilians near an aid centre in the northwest of Rafah
• One person was killed southwest of the southern city of Khan Younis by “Israeli military fire”