Eighteen people have been killed in an overnight Israeli bombing of a house in Rafah, with nine children among the victims, Al Jazeera reports.

Israeli shelling in the Nassr neighbourhood, northeast of Rafah, has also caused casualties.

The attacks in Gaza’s southern district, where more than 1.4 million Palestinians are displaced, come despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the first such resolution to pass in the nearly six-month conflict.