GAZA, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Two Palestinian children were killed Saturday in an Israeli drone strike east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, as the Israeli army intensified its attacks on various areas of the enclave, according to Palestinian medical and security sources.
Nasser Hospital said in a press statement that two brothers, respectively aged 8 and 11, were killed in a drone strike in the town of Bani Suheila, located near the "yellow line" which marks the Israeli military's redeployment boundary under the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement.
The Israeli army has not issued a comment on the incident.
Palestinian security sources said the Israeli army has intensified its land, air, and sea bombardments of the Gaza Strip since Friday night.
The sources said Israeli artillery shelled parts of Beit Lahia city in northern Gaza. In Gaza city, bombardment hit the Shuja'iyya and Tuffah neighborhoods, while tanks fired toward the eastern edge of the Zeitoun neighborhood. The Israeli Navy also opened fire off the city's coast.
Further south, artillery targeted areas east of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, and the Israeli army carried out airstrikes on eastern Rafah as well as on the towns of Qarara and Bani Suheila east of Khan Younis.
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said in a press statement that the Israeli army's escalation of strikes is "an extension of its ongoing aggression against the Gaza Strip."
He called on mediators and guarantor states to take serious action to stop Israel's violations of the ceasefire agreement. ■
