Gaza’s civil defence agency has said Israeli strikes and artillery shelling killed at least 50 people in the war-battered Palestinian territory, AFP reports.

Agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal has said at least 13 people were “recovered from rubble” after a dawn strike in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, while another 35 were killed in 12 separate strikes across the Gaza Strip.

Bassal adds that in southern Gaza, one woman was killed in artillery shelling, and one man by gunfire.