The emergency service said fighter jets conducted air strikes and there was artillery shelling and gunfire in the early morning in areas north of the southern city of Khan Yunis.
Agency official Mohammed al-Mughayyir said 10 people were killed in two separate strikes in the Khan Yunis area, with one hitting a house and the other tents sheltering displaced people.
In Gaza's north, four people were killed in an air strike in the Jabalia al-Nazla area, he added.
Media restrictions in Gaza and difficulties in accessing many areas mean AFP is unable to independently verify tolls and details provided by the agency and other parties.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which asked for exact coordinates to look into the reports when contacted by AFP.
The latest strikes came after Israel said it mistakenly hit Gaza's only Catholic church with a "stray" round on Thursday, killing three and provoking international condemnation.
On Wednesday, at least 20 people were killed in a crush at a food aid distribution centre in the south of the territory run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas began in the Qatari capital Doha on July 6 to try to agree on a 60-day ceasefire after 21 months of hostilities.
The war was sparked by Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 which led to the deaths of 1,219 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.
Israel's retaliatory military offensive has killed at least 58,667 Palestinians, mostly civilians, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US President Donald Trump on Thursday that a strike on Gaza's only Catholic church had been "a mistake," the White House said.
Trump called Netanyahu after having "not a positive reaction" to learning of the strike, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.
"It was a mistake by the Israelis to hit that Catholic church, that's what the prime minister relayed to the president," Leavitt said.
"We mothers of soldiers haven't slept in two years," said Ayelet-Hashakhar Saidof, a lawyer who founded the Mothers on the Front movement in Israel.
A 48-year-old mother of three, including a soldier currently serving in the army, Saidof said her movement brings together some 70,000 mothers of active-duty troops, conscripts and reservists to demand, among other things, a halt to the fighting in Gaza.
Her anxiety was familiar to other mothers of soldiers interviewed by AFP who have refocused their lives on stopping a war that many Israelis increasingly feel has run its course, even as a ceasefire deal remains elusive.
In addition to urging an end to the fighting in Gaza, Mothers on the Front's foremost demand is that everyone serve in the army, as mandated by Israeli law.
That request is particularly urgent today, as draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox Jews have become a wedge issue in Israeli society, with the military facing manpower shortages in its 21-month fight against the militant group Hamas. As the war drags on, Saidof has become increasingly concerned that Israel will be confronted with long-term ramifications from the conflict.
"We're seeing 20-year-olds completely lost, broken, exhausted, coming back with psychological wounds that society doesn't know how to treat," she said.
"They are ticking time bombs on our streets, prone to violence, to outbursts of rage."
According to the army, 23 Israeli soldiers have been killed in Gaza over the past month, and more than 450 have died since the start of the ground offensive in October 2023.
Saidof accuses the army of neglecting soldiers' lives.
Gaza civil defence agency says Israeli strikes kill 14
FE Team | Published: July 18, 2025 21:49:20
Gaza civil defence agency says Israeli strikes kill 14
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