Israel pounds targets across Gaza, awaits Hamas word on three hostages

In Al-Nusseirat refugee camp, local journalist Doaa El-Baz showed footage of what had once been the street where she lived.

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip walk next to the border with Egypt, in Rafah, southern Gaza. Picture: AP Photo/Fatima Shbair

Israeli forces bombarded targets in the south, north and centre of the Gaza Strip on Monday ahead of an expected announcement by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on the fate of three Israeli hostages shown in a video clip at the weekend.

Twelve Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli airstrike overnight on a house in Gaza City in the north, health officials said, while plumes of smoke rose above the main southern city of Khan Younis shelled by Israeli tanks.