Israeli military forces have killed four Palestinian children in the latest air strike on the Gaza Strip, medics say.

The children aged eight, nine, eleven and twelve, were killed while they played in a field in the town of Jabaliya in the north of the territory on Thursday.

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Another Israeli aircraft struck two targets in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday afternoon, killing at least one person and wounding two others, Palestinian medics said.

Eleven other Palestinians, including a six-month-old baby, were killed in the Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.