Gaza’s civil defence agency says Israeli strikes have killed at least eight people, including a 17-year-old who died in an attack on a southern town.

Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that “at least eight people have been killed and dozens injured in Israeli air strikes since dawn.”

Bassal said three people were killed when a group of civilians was struck in Gaza City’s Zeitun neighbourhood, and three more in a strike that hit a residential building in the central Bureij refugee camp.

“Two people died in the southern Khan Younis area”, Bassal said, including a 17-year-old boy in a strike on the town of Khuzaa and another person killed when Israeli forces hit fishing boats off the coast.

In a separate incident near Khan Younis, a strike wounded at least 12 people, most of them children, in Al-Mawasi, the civil defence spokesman added.