Five Palestinians, including two children, were killed on Monday while several others were injured in new Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, despite a cease-fire that took effect last October.
A medical source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis told Anadolu Agency (AA) that the body of 10-year-old Amal Nashat Abu Khater, along with two injured Palestinians, had been brought to the hospital after Israeli forces targeted local homes and displacement tents with gunfire.
Witnesses also told the agency that Israeli military vehicles had fired on the city’s Satr area, injuring three Palestinians.
In central Gaza, two Palestinian brothers were killed when an Israeli drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people near the Shuhadaa Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
A correspondent, citing a local medical source, said Mohammed Abdul Nasser Abu Asad, 27, had also been killed and several others injured.
Ibrahim Abdel Nasser Abu Asad, 24, also died from injuries sustained in the strike, the correspondent added.
In Gaza City, two Palestinians, including a woman, were injured by Israeli army gunfire in the Zeitoun and Shujaiya neighborhoods, a medical source told Anadolu.
In the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, an Israeli airstrike targeted a home, killing a child and wounding his mother and sister, according to the Civil Defense.
In Khan Younis in southern Gaza, a Palestinian was killed and five others were wounded when an Israeli drone struck a gathering of civilians west of the city, a medical source told AA.
Israel also shelled a home west of Deir al-Balah after issuing an evacuation warning, wounding three Palestinians, according to a medical source.
Israeli warplanes also targeted a prayer hall attached to the Abu Salim Mosque in the center of the city, causing extensive damage.
In Gaza City’s western Shati refugee camp, an Israeli airstrike targeted the Asqalan prayer hall and destroyed it after an evacuation warning was issued for a residential block.
Israeli warplanes also targeted a water desalination plant in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood north of Gaza City, destroying the facility and damaging nearby homes and tents sheltering displaced Palestinians.
In a report released Monday, Gaza’s Health Ministry said hospitals had received two bodies and 32 injured people over the past 24 hours, without specifying the circumstances.
The ministry added that the post-ceasefire death toll currently stands at 1,288, with another 4,290 injured, in addition to 813 bodies recovered from the rubble of destroyed buildings and infrastructure.
The overall death toll from Israel’s ongoing war in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 currently stands at 73,422 killed and 174,401 injured, the ministry added.
Numerous victims remain buried under the rubble, with ambulance and civil-defense teams unable to reach them, it said.
Alongside the casualties, most of whom are women and children, Israel has destroyed around 90% of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure, with the U.N. estimating total reconstruction costs at some $70 billion.