Gaza’s civil defence agency has said Israeli strikes killed at least 10 people in the battered Palestinian territory as the military keeps up an intensified offensive, AFP reports.

“Ten martyrs so far resulting from Israeli strikes since dawn,” agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP, adding that they had targeted an area where displaced civilians were sheltering in the southern city of Khan Yunis and houses in Gaza City and the central town of Deir el-Balah.