Bangla Press Desk: Israel’s military has killed at least three Palestinians in attacks across Gaza despite a United-States brokered ceasefire, as authorities in the war-torn territory reported that the overall death toll has now risen above 69,000.
The latest killings on Saturday came as Hamas also announced retrieving the remains of an Israeli soldier from a tunnel near Rafah in southern Gaza.
Medical sources told Al Jazeera that the victims of Saturday’s attacks included a Palestinian man who was killed in the central Bureij refugee camp, while the Israeli military said it killed two others who allegedly crossed the so-called “yellow line” or the ceasefire boundary in northern and southern parts of the territory.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza said Israeli forces have killed more than 240 Palestinians since the ceasefire deal came into effect on October 10.
It also said the total number of people killed in the enclave since October 7, 2023, had risen to 69,169, after more of the dead were identified and more bodies were recovered from the rubble.
Adding to the death toll, a Palestinian child was killed after an explosive device left behind by Israeli forces in the city of Khan Younis detonated, according to Nasser Hospital.
In the occupied West Bank, too, the killings have continued, according to officials.
Health authorities said Israeli forces shot Ahmed Daeawsheh during a raid on Al Faraa refugee camp, near the city of Tubas, and that he died of his wounds at a hospital later.
Israeli captive
Hamas, meanwhile, said it has retrieved the remains of Israeli officer Hadar Goldin, who was captured and reported killed during an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip in 2014.
Goldin is one of the five remaining captives meant to be returned to Israel under the terms of the ceasefire deal.
Hamas also said that the bodies of six Palestinians were recovered from the site, too.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, said Goldin’s body was recovered from the city of Rafah, which has been under Israeli control for more than a year.
“We’ve got reports that the Israeli captive was retrieved from a tunnel that the Israeli military inspected multiple times over the past year,” he said.
“What is so controversial here is that the Israeli military announced that Goldin was killed in action although his body was never returned until this day. But now also reports from al-Qassam brigades suggest that six of the security members who were escorting his body in captivity were found killed at the same site, which raises serious concerns that they were killed by Israeli raids in the area,” he added.
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