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Alsharq Tribune-AFP
At least five Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike on a tent sheltering displaced people in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, according to Gaza's Civil Defense.
Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Civil Defense, said the airstrike targeted the tent in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, killing all five people inside. The bodies were taken to the nearby Kuwaiti Field Hospital.
The Israeli military has not commented on the attack.
Israel's Channel 12 reported that the Israeli Air Force had begun strikes across the Gaza Strip in response to what it described as a breach of the ceasefire agreement.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Israeli military said five soldiers were wounded during a clash with militants who emerged from an underground tunnel in eastern Rafah.
A preliminary investigation found that troops shot dead two militants who approached them, the military said. Shortly afterward, a third man, who was not immediately identified, placed an explosive device on an armoured vehicle and fled.
Israel's public broadcaster KAN reported that groups of Palestinian militants remain holed up in Rafah's tunnels as Israeli forces continue operations to apprehend them.
