Israeli strikes kill 15 Palestinians in Gaza

Medical sources told Reuters that Israeli strikes on Gaza had killed at least 15 Palestinians on Sunday.

Medics said an Israeli air strike killed six people in a house in the central Gaza camp of Nuseirat, and three more in Gaza City. 

Two children were killed when a missile hit a tent encampment in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, while four other people were killed in an air strike in Rafah, near the border with Egypt, medics told Reuters.

Residents said the military blew up clusters of houses in the northern Gaza areas of Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun, where Israeli forces have operated since October this year.

Palestinians say Israel's operations on the northern edge of the enclave are part of a plan to clear people out through forced evacuations and bombardments to create a buffer zone - an allegation the army denies.