Including a child, Israel kills three in Gaza

GAZA: Gaza health officials said Israeli fire killed three people, including a woman and a child, and injured several others across the Palestinian territory on Monday. Officials at Nasser hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis said the body of a child, Ismail al Bardawil, was brought to the medical facility after Israeli tanks opened fire on tents for displaced people in the Al Mawasi area. Mahmoud Bassal, the spokesman for Gaza's civil defence agency, which operates as a rescue force under Hamas authority, said the child was 11 years old.
In the central Gaza Strip, Al Awda hospital officials said 31-year-old Fidaa Toutah died from her wounds after being shot by Israeli forces on Salah al-Din street east of Nuseirat refugee camp. Officials at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City said a man, Mohsen Ahmed Bahjat, died after being shot in the head by a drone in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip. It said its teams had transported nine wounded people to hospitals following Israeli fire in Khan Yunis in the south and Bureij refugee camp in the centre of the territory. — AFP