At least 12 people have been killed, including women and children, in overnight attacks by Israeli forces on homes located in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis and Rafah cities, Al Jazeera reports quoting the Wafa news agency.

Earlier in the night, two Israeli attacks on homes in the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in central Gaza killed 10 people, Wafa also reported.

Three children were among 10 people killed when two homes were destroyed in Israeli attacks on a neighbourhood in the east of Khan Younis. A separate attack on the home of the Abu Khater family in Khan Younis left two people dead and many wounded, Wafa reports.

In Rafah city, an attack on the Abu Ubaid family home in the Saudi neighbourhood and the Oreiba area, to the north of the city, also resulted in casualties but the number of dead and injured was not yet known.

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