The number of Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza has risen to 18, medics said, while the Israeli military said it targeted gunmen operating from shelters and aid storages, Reuters reports.

At least 10 people were killed in an airstrike near the municipality building in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip where people gathered to receive aid, medics said.

Casualties were being carried by foot, on rickshaws and private cars from the site of the attack to the hospital, medics said. The strike killed the head of the administrative committee in central Gaza, the report adds citing a Hamas source.