Israeli fire kills father and son in Gaza, medics say

Israeli forces ​killed at least four Palestinians, including ‌a father ​and his 13-year-old son, in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, local health officials said.

Medics said Fadi Rajab and his ‌son Abubakr were killed in an airstrike that hit the roof of a displacement shelter in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City. A third Palestinian was killed in an Israeli airstrike ‌near a school in Gaza City's Daraj neighbourhood, health officials added. The Israeli military said ‌it struck militants in both areas, without giving further details.

In Khan Younis, south of the enclave, a man was killed by Israeli gunfire, medics said, taking Tuesday's death toll to at least four. The Israeli ⁠military ​did not immediately comment ⁠on that reported incident. A US-brokered ceasefire last year called for the eventual reconstruction of Gaza, but little progress ⁠has been made. Negotiators have failed to agree on terms for Hamas to disarm or for Israel ​to withdraw its troops, which control about two-thirds of the territory and from ⁠which residents have been ordered to leave.

Israel says Hamas is trying to regroup and refill its arsenal, while Hamas ⁠says ​it is committed to the ceasefire agreement and accuses Israel of trying to undermine it. At least 1,600 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since ⁠the ceasefire agreement, according to the territory's health officials, while Israel says four soldiers have been ⁠killed.

Palestinian authorities say ⁠more than 74,000 people have been killed in Israel's assault on Gaza, launched after Hamas-led fighters killed about 1,200 people in southern ‌Israel on October ‌7, 2023.