GAZA: Two Palestinians were killed on Sunday evening by an Israeli strike targeting the northern Gaza Strip.
Medical sources in the enclave said two people were killed and at least one other was injured after an Israeli drone struck the Al-Salatin area west of Beit Lahia.
The death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 73,054 Palestinians killed and 173,480 injured since Oct. 7, 2023, medical sources said on Sunday.
According to local health authorities, hospitals across the Gaza Strip received the bodies of three Palestinians killed and 43 injured over the past 24 hours.
They added that since the ceasefire started on Oct. 11 last year, the death toll has reached 1,041, with 3,372 injuries recorded during the same period.
Medical teams have also recovered 786 bodies from under rubble.
An unknown number of victims remain trapped beneath the rubble and in the streets, added the sources, as ambulance and civil defense crews continue to face difficulties reaching them.
Meanwhile, car bombs and gun attacks killed five members of Israel’s Arab minority on Sunday.
Criminal violence has escalated among Israel’s Arab minority in recent years, where gangs extort residents and business owners for protection and frequently kill those who fail to pay.
In Jaffa, part of the Tel Aviv municipal area, a car bomb killed a man in his 40s, police and emergency services said, while Israeli news reports reported that the blast left the man’s six-year old son injured.
“The background is criminal,” the police said.
A second car bomb struck in Holon, south of Tel Aviv, severely injuring a man who later died at hospital, the force said.
The victim had been known to police for his involvement in disputes, said Tel Aviv police district commander Major General Haim Sargarof.
A man was shot dead and another injured in the Arab-majority town of Taybeh in central Israel, in what the police described as “apparently a family dispute.”
Hours later, two more men were gunned down in the nearby town of Qalansawe, emergency service Magen David Adom reported.
“A preliminary inquiry indicates that the background to the incident is apparently a family feud,” police said.
Sunday’s bloodshed pushed the toll of Arab citizens killed in such violence to 142 so far this year, according to the Abraham Initiatives, an Israeli NGO promoting Arab minority inclusion — an 11 percent rise over the same period last year.
