GAZA CITY: Gaza’s Civil Defense agency said on Saturday that Israeli strikes had killed six people, the latest bout of violence in the territory against the backdrop of the US-Israeli war with Iran.
In a pre-dawn strike on Saturday, two policemen and a civilian were killed in the southern city of Khan Younis, the agency reported.
A strike on a group of civilians on Friday evening in eastern Gaza City killed three people, whose bodies were taken to the territory’s main Al-Shifa Hospital, the agency said.
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In a pre-dawn strike on Saturday, two policemen and a civilian were killed in the southern city of Khan Younis, Gaza’s civil defense agency reported.
Violence has continued in the Palestinian territory despite a ceasefire since Oct. 10.
Meanwhile, Israeli settlers injured five Palestinians, including two with gunshot wounds, in a fresh attack against a village in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian official said on Saturday.
Palestinian news agency WAFA said a group of settlers attacked in the area of Rashayda, near the village of Kisan, “firing live ammunition.”
Musa Abayat, the mayor of the area east of Bethlehem, said two people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds and three others beaten with sharp objects or hit by stones.
“The settlers also stole 100 sheep,” Abayat said, decrying “daily attacks” by settlers in this part of the West Bank.
Israeli police had detained two Israeli civilians who fired their weapons, while three Palestinians were also apprehended, the military added.
There has been a spike in deadly settler attacks in the West Bank in recent days, with at least five Palestinians killed since the start of March, according to Palestinian authorities and the UN.
Violence more broadly in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, has also risen sharply since the Oct. 7, 2023. It has continued despite a ceasefire since Oct. 10.
Israeli troops or settlers have killed at least 1,045 Palestinians, many of them militants, but also scores of civilians, in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war, according to a tally based on Palestinian Health Ministry figures.
At least 45 Israelis, including both soldiers and civilians, have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military operations, according to official Israeli figures.
