Gaza’s health ministry has said at least 12 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a series of airstrikes in Rafah near the border with Egypt.

AFP correspondents witnessed more than 10 airstrikes that hit several houses near the frontier.

“Twelve martyrs and dozens of wounded, including women and children, were recovered from under the rubble when a house and a mosque were targeted hundreds of metres from Kuwaiti hospital,” the ministry said in a statement.