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Israeli bombings killed 12 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn, Medical sources said on Sunday.
Gaza’s civil defence reported earlier that an elderly man and a girl were killed after an overnight attack on the home of the al-Nimr family in Sheikh Radwan.
Israeli air raids also hit the Jabalia and Nuseirat refugee camps. The home of a civil defence officer was bombed in Nuseirat, resulting in the deaths of his two children.
According to al-Awda Hospital, three Palestinians died in the shelling of a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
A fourth Palestinian was killed in an attack in the Jabaliya refugee camp, the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza said. An Israeli military spokesman said they were investigating the reports.
According to the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health, 24 people were killed in the Mediterranean coastal strip within a day.
More than 41,200 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war, the ministry says.
Meanwhile, after denials for months, the Israeli military said there is a "high probability” its air strike was responsible for the deaths of three Israeli captives in Gaza in November.
The military on Sunday said it was unaware the captives were present in a tunnel in the Palestinian territory when they launched the attack on November 10, 2023.
The bodies of the three captives – Corporal Nik Beizer, Sergeant Ron Sherman and French-Israeli national Elia Toledano – were recovered on December 14. But the cause of death was not determined.
"The findings of the investigation suggest a high probability that the three were killed as a result of a byproduct of an [Israeli army] air strike, during the elimination of the Hamas Northern Brigade commander, Ahmed Ghandour, on November 10th, 2023,” the military said in a statement.
The military said its investigation revealed that the three captives had been held in a tunnel complex from which Ghandour operated.
"At the time of the strike, the [army] did not have
information about the presence of hostages in the targeted compound,” the military statement said.