Israeli warplanes bombed a kindergarten where displaced people were sheltering east of Rafah at dawn, the Wafa news agency reports.

Several people, including two girls, were killed in the attack, and dozens of others were injured, Wafa reports, citing medical sources.

Meanwhile, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum says Israeli attacks on the Al-Salam neighborhood, east of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, have been intensifying as concern grows Israel will expand its ground invasion to Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians are sheltering in overcrowded conditions.