Israeli airstrikes killed at least four Palestinians in Gaza on Thursday, Palestinian health officials said.
One person was killed in a strike in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis in which several others were wounded, local medics said.
Israel’s military claimed it had targeted militants transporting munitions, who it said had posed a threat to Israeli soldiers.
Three others, including a rescue worker, were killed in a separate strike in Maghazi, a Palestinian refugee camp in the Deir Al-Balah area in central Gaza, health officials said. Israel’s military had no immediate comment on that strike.
Israel has carried out repeated strikes on Gaza since a US-brokered ceasefire came into effect in October.
Both Israel and Hamas have accused each other of ceasefire violations. There is no mechanism for enforcing the ceasefire.
At Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, the territory’s largest medical facility, relatives stood among mourners gathered to bury five people, including three children, who were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike on a northern Gaza town.
“There is no ceasefire, no truce, nothing at all,” said Mohammed Baalousha, a relative of one of the victims. “There is no safety in any area.”
Earlier on Wednesday, a citizen was killed, and others were injured in an airstrike targeting a group of citizens while they were attempting to remove the rubble of their home in Old Gaza Street in Jabalia town, north of the strip.
Israeli artillery also shelled the eastern areas of Beit Lahia, with shrapnel falling on citizens’ homes in Beit Lahia’s main street. Four citizens were injured by Israeli army gunfire east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
In a separate attack, a citizen was seriously injured in a drone strike near the Bani Suhaila roundabout east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has reached 72,568, with 172,338 injured, since the start of the assault on Oct. 7, 2023, medical sources in Gaza reported on Thursday.
They said that hospitals in Gaza received the bodies of six slain Palestinians, along with 18 injuries, in the past 24 hours.
The number of fatalities since the ceasefire on Oct. 11 has surged to 791, with more than 2,235 injuries reported. The bodies of 761 Palestinians have been retrieved over the same period.
Thousands of victims remain trapped under collapsed buildings or on the streets.
However, emergency responders are struggling to reach them due to a lack of essential equipment for debris removal and rescue operations.
Rehabilitation of Gaza, where two years of Israeli bombardment have destroyed four-fifths of buildings, has been projected by global institutions to cost around $70 billion.
Representatives of US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” have held talks with state-owned Dubai multinational DP World about managing supply chains and infrastructure projects in Gaza, the Financial Times said on Tuesday.
