GAZA, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Five Palestinians, including a child, were killed Monday by Israeli fire in northern and southern Gaza, according to Gaza's civil defense authorities.
Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for the Civil Defense in Gaza, told Xinhua that three people, including an eight-year-old child named Jad Suleiman, were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a group of people in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
Eyewitnesses said Suleiman was killed in the airstrike as he was returning from school in the camp.
In a separate incident, two people were killed and several others injured, some seriously, in an Israeli airstrike targeting a gathering of Palestinians in the al-Attar area of al-Mawasi, in southern Gaza.
Gaza-based health authorities said government hospitals in the enclave received nine bodies and treated 43 wounded over the past 24 hours.
The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli army fire since the ceasefire in Gaza went into effect in October last year has reached 970, bringing the total death toll since Oct. 7, 2023, to 72,980, according to local authorities. ■
