Two Palestinians were killed Tuesday in a fresh Israeli airstrike in eastern Gaza City.
"The two were killed when Israel bombed residential areas of eastern Gaza City," Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qodra told Anadolu Agency.
The latest fatalities bring to 2137 the total number of Palestinians, mostly civilians, killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since hostilities began on July 7.
Al-Qodra said victims included 578 children, 261 women and 102 elderly Palestinians.
Meanwhile, Hamas said that a long-term truce to end seven weeks of fighting in Gaza had been agreed with Israel, hailing it as a "victory for the resistance."
"The negotiations with an agreement which embodies the resistance of our people and a victory for the resistance," Hamas's exiled deputy leader, Mussa Abu Marzuk, wrote on his Facebook page
For the last seven weeks, Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip from air, land and sea with the stated aim of halting rocket fire from the Palestinian territory.
Thousands of homes across the beleaguered coastal enclave, meanwhile, have been partially or completely destroyed by devastating Israeli bombardments.
Over the same period, 64 Israeli troops have been killed in combat operations inside the Gaza Strip, while four civilians have been killed in rocket attacks on Israel, according to Israeli figures.
The number of Palestinian fatalities from Israel's current offensive has now surpassed the combined death toll from two previous operations against Gaza, including Israel's bloody "Operation Cast Lead" in 2008/09 in which at least 1500 Palestinians were killed over a three-week period.
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