Israeli bombing and tank fire have killed at least nine people in Gaza since Wednesday afternoon, after the army said its soldiers had been fired on earlier in the day, the civil defence has said.
Five people, including a woman and child, were killed when the Israeli army bombed a building in the Zeitoun area of Gaza city, civil defence spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said.
Another bombing in the southern Al Mawasi area of Khan Younis killed three people and injured several others, while one person was killed and dozens injured in an Israeli drone strike on a group of civilians at an intersection on Salah Al Din Street in the Shujaiya area east of Gaza city, Mr Basal said.
An Israeli tank shelled a family home in the same area, killing one person and wounding several others.
Israel's army said it had begun attacking Hamas targets across the Palestinian territory after “terrorists” fired at an area where its troops were operating in Khan Younis.
Earlier on Wednesday, troops shot dead one person who crossed the yellow line in northern Gaza, the army said. The line demarcates the area to which Israeli troops have withdrawn in the first stage of a US-brokered ceasefire that began on October 10.
Israel has continued to carry out attacks in Gaza despite the cease
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