Five people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip and in Nuseirat, a refugee camp in the center, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported on Wednesday.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was continuing operations in the areas in question. Individuals who fired rockets at IDF forces in Rafah were targeted, the IDF said.
It added that the Israeli air force on Tuesday struck targets in the city from which rockets had been fired into Israel. Terrorists had also been killed in the center of the Gaza Strip, the report said.
IDF forces killed a Hamas sniper and another member of the Palestinian militant organization in the northern region on Tuesday, the report said. More than 25 targets were hit from the air in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the report said.
The Hamas-controlled health authority reported that at least 81 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours.
According to the authority, at least 38,794 people have been killed and another 89,364 wounded since the start of the current war. The figures do not distinguish between civilians and combatants and cannot be independently verified.
