Israeli forces have struck targets across the Gaza Strip, with witnesses reporting air raids around the southern city of Rafah, the latest focus of the nearly eight-month offensive, AFP reports.

Witnesses said Israeli strikes hit the Rafah area as well as central Gaza’s Nuseirat, and an AFP correspondent reported intense bombardment in the north.

Strikes on two separate locations killed a total of 11 people overnight, medical sources at a hospital in Deir al-Balah and the Nuseirat refugee camp reported.

The Israeli military said its troops “continue… operational activities” in the Rafah area, and claimed finding rocket launchers, weapons and “tunnel shafts” in the city centre.

An air strike “targeted and eliminated” a gunman in that area, it added.