Israeli shells Gaza refugee camp, killing nine, Palestinian media say

Israeli shelling of Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp has killed nine people, among them women and children, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

Another 15 people were reportedly injured in what was the latest of a string of aerial attacks on the central Gazan camp housing displaced Palestinians in recent weeks.

The attack came after a separate Israeli strike killed seven people in Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip, according to WAFA

An Israeli army spokeswoman said the reports were being investigated.

Five rockets had earlier previously been fired at Israel from the Beit Hanoun area.

The spokesman for the Israeli army, speaking in Arabic, called on the inhabitants of several districts north-west of the city of Gaza to seek shelter in the centre of the city of Gaza.

Since the beginning of the Gaza war with the unprecedented Hamas massacre in Israel on October 7, 2023, more than 45,500 people have been killed in the coastal strip, according to Palestinian sources.