GAZA CITY: Four Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, hospitals in the coastal territory said on Sunday.
According to Al Awda hospital, three of them died in the shelling of a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
A fourth Palestinian was killed in an attack in the Jabaliya refugee camp, the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza said. An Israeli military spokesman said they were investigating the reports.
According to the Ministry of Health, 24 people were killed in the Mediterranean coastal strip within a day.
More than 41,200 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war, the ministry says. Israel has come under severe international criticism due to the high number of civilian casualties, the catastrophic health situation in the Gaza Strip and the heavy destruction of the territory.
Meanwhile, an investigation found on Sunday that the three Israeli captives whose bodies were recovered in Gaza last year were likely killed by an Israeli airstrike,
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said in a statement that the three captives - two soldiers and a young woman with French citizenship who was captured at the Nova music festival - probably died as a result of an airstrike on November 10, 2023.
The findings, based on detailed analysis of the strike and pathological reports, were a "high-probability assessment," the statement said, although the IDF stated that it could not "definitively determine the circumstances of their deaths."
A missile launched by Yemen's Ansar Allah fighters hit central Israel on Sunday, a rare incident that caused no casualties but added to regional tensions nearly a year into the Gaza war.
Palestinian group Hamas praised the missile launch, vowing that Israel "will not enjoy security unless it ceases its brutal aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip".
Israeli medics said several people were slightly injured while "on their way to shelters" as sirens sounded, and police said a fragment of an air-defence interceptor had come down east of Tel Aviv. — Agencies
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