A total of 16 Palestinians, including 10 children, were killed and several others wounded after Israeli forces shelled a house in the center of Gaza City on Wednesday night, Palestinian official news agency WAFA said on Thursday.

At dawn on Thursday, forces targeted a house in the Nussirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least eight people, Xinhua news agency reported.

The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that its operational activity targeting "terrorists" would continue throughout the Gaza Strip.