Gaza City, Gaza - Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed at least 17 people in central Gaza, local authorities said, as the site of a massacre conducted during a hostage rescue operation on June 8 was targeted again.

Witnesses reported gunfire and artillery shelling near Nuseirat refugee camp, where the civil defense agency said at least 13 people were killed in two separate strikes on a family home and on a commercial building.

Local media cited by Al Jazeera later raised the death toll to 17.

Israel killed over 270 Palestinians, many of them women and children, during a brutal assault on Nuseirat on June 8, when four Israeli hostages were rescued.

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Witnesses and the Gaza government media office also said there were some strikes and fighting elsewhere in northern and central Gaza.

An AFP correspondent reported Israeli strikes near Gaza City.

In Rafah, where the Israeli military has said it would pause fighting along a key humanitarian route in the city's east, witnesses saw Israeli military vehicles and reported shelling in other areas.

The vital Rafah crossing with Egypt has been shut since Israeli forces seized its Palestinian side in early May, and the already insufficient aid has slowed to a trickle.

Ali Hassan, a displaced Palestinian sheltering in a tent in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah, told AFP that the celebration of "Eid al-Adha this year is not like previous holidays."

"There is no meat or sacrificial animals, we don't even have clothes for the children," he said.

In a message for Eid, US President Joe Biden has called for the implementation of a ceasefire plan he outlined last month, saying it was "the best way to end the violence".

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Biden's proposal, which he has presented as Israeli, would bring an initial six-week pause to fighting and Hamas would free hostages in exchange for the release of Palestinian captives held by Israel.

But Israeli officials have repeatedly indicated that they will not support any deal that would lead to a permanent ceasefire, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisting on nothing less than "total victory."