Israeli forces have killed at least 15 Palestinians as they bombarded targets including homes and tents in Gaza, the territory’s civil defence spokesperson told AFP.

Some of those who remained were sheltering in the city centre when air strikes hit them, civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said.

“At least seven deaths, most of them children, and a large number of injuries as a result of three air strikes on a Gaza Municipality warehouse and tents for the displaced in Firas Market,” he told AFP.

Three other people were killed by Israeli bombardment elsewhere in the city; two in an apartment on Al-Sahaba Street and one in the area of Al-Yarmouk Market, Bassal said.

In central Gaza, the civil defence reported “four dead and injuries in a helicopter strike” on a home in Nuseirat.

Another person was killed in an Israeli air strike on a home north of Nuseirat, Bassal said.