At least 17 dead in Israeli air strike on Gaza

Destruction in the wake of an earlier Israeli air and ground offensive in Jebaliya (Enas Rami/AP)

An Israeli air strike on the northern Gaza Strip has killed at least 17 people, according to local hospital officials.

Dr Fadel Naim, director of the Al-Ahly Hospital in Gaza City, said nine women are among the dead.

He said they were killed in a strike on a home in the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya, where Israel has been carrying out an offensive for more than a month.