Israeli strikes kill 13 in southern Gaza town that could be next target in war

A Palestinian child looks at the damage to his family’s house after an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip (Fatima Shbair/AP)

Israeli air strikes killed more than a dozen people overnight and into Thursday in Rafah in the Gaza Strip, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Hamas’s ceasefire terms and vowed to expand the offensive into the southern Gaza town.

More than half of the strip’s population has fled to Rafah, on the mostly sealed border with Egypt, which is also the main entry point for humanitarian aid.