GAZA: Four Palestinians have been killed in a drone strike during an Israeli raid on the occupied West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, Palestinian official news agency Wafa reports quoting a hospital director.

One other person was injured in the attack on the Al-Sibat neighbourhood in the city, Wissam Bakr, director of Jenin Hospital told Wafa.

The hospital director told the agency the Palestinians were directly targeted. Israeli forces are encircling three hospitals in the area, Wafa added.

Israel has pressed on with its bombing of Gaza after saying its campaign to destroy Hamas has left the Palestinian group on the “verge of dissolution”.

Humanitarian leaders fear the besieged territory will soon be overwhelmed by disease and starvation, and are piling diplomatic pressure on Israel to boost efforts to protect civilians.

Fighting raged on today, with Hamas saying clashes had taken place in central Gaza and witnesses reporting deadly Israeli strikes in the south of the territory.

Israeli air strikes killed at least 12 people in the southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt, where tens of thousands of people are seeking shelter, official Palestinian news agency Wafa said.

Strikes on Monday targeted Gaza’s main southern city of Khan Younis, now the epicentre of the fighting.