Israeli strikes on Jabalia, Khan Younis kill at least 30 people including children

Gaza's civil defense agency said nine children were among 16 people killed in an Israeli strike on what it called a U.N. clinic in Jabalia Wednesday, which the army did not immediately confirm.

Civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said there were also dozens of people wounded in the strike which "targeted an UNRWA building housing a medical clinic in Jabalia refugee camp". The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) was not immediately able to confirm the strike.

Earlier Israeli air strikes on two homes in Khan Younis had also killed at least 15 people, including children.

"Thirteen martyrs, including children, were killed at dawn when occupation forces (the Israeli army) bombed a house sheltering displaced people in central Khan Younis, in southern Gaza," Bassal told AFP, adding two other people were killed in an Israeli strike on a house in the Nuseirat camp, in central Gaza.