ISRAELI strikes on the Gaza Strip overnight and into this morning killed at least 25 people, including eight children and five women, according to Palestinian medics.

A strike on a home in the central town of Deir al-Balah killed 11 people, including five children as young as two, according to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies.

Another four people were killed in a separate strike that hit a different house in the town, it said.