At least eight people, including four children, have been killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza in the last 24 hours, the territory’s civil defence agency has said.<\/p>\n
Four people, including three children, were killed when a drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza, the agency’s spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.<\/p>\n
An 11-year-old girl was killed near the Jabalia refugee camp and a strike on a school killed one person, he said, while a drone killed a man near Khan Younis and another was killed in an Israeli strike on Deir al-Balah.<\/p>\n
Israel’s military had said it is checking the reports. Both Israel and Hamas have accused each other of breaching a fragile ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n
Israeli forces have killed at least 425 Palestinians in Gaza since the latest US-brokered truce took effect on 10 October, according to Gaza’s health ministry.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said a projectile was launched towards Israel from the area around Gaza City but that it fell within the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n
The military said it then “precisely struck the launch point”.<\/p>\n
The current ceasefire in Gaza has largely halted fighting between Israeli forces and the Palestinian armed group Hamas, though both sides have alleged frequent ceasefire violations.<\/p>\n
Since October 10, a fragile US-sponsored truce in Gaza has largely halted the fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas, but both sides have alleged frequent ceasefire violations.<\/p>\n
It is the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s 22-point peace plan for Gaza, which saw the release of the remaining living Israeli hostages captured by Hamas during its 7 October 2023 attack on southern Israel in exchange for Palestinian detainees held in Israeli jails.<\/p>\n
But since then, the plan has stalled.<\/p>\n
While several bodies of hostages who died have been returned, one body has yet to be returned.<\/p>\n