In Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, more than ten people were killed during the night on Saturday, according to hospitals and local authorities, AP writes.
Health workers also said they had completed the second phase of an emergency polio vaccination campaign designed to prevent a large-scale outbreak.
The vaccination drive was launched after health officials confirmed the first case of polio in the Palestinian enclave in 25 years, in a 10-month-old boy.
Meanwhile, Israel continued its military offensive. In the Nuseirat urban refugee camp in central Gaza, Al-Awda Hospital said it had received the bodies of nine people killed in two separate airstrikes.
Separately, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Gaza's main hospital, said a woman and her two children were killed in an attack on a house in the nearby Bureij urban refugee camp.
In northern Gaza, an airstrike on a school-turned-shelter for displaced people in the town of Jabalia killed at least four people and wounded about two dozen others, according to Gaza Civil Defense authorities, which operate under the government of the Hamas-run territory. The Israeli military said it attacked a Hamas command post built into a former school complex.
The war began when Hamas and other militants attacked Israel on October 7, killing about 1.200 people, mostly civilians. Hamas is believed to still be holding more than 100 hostages. Israeli authorities estimate that about a third are dead.
More than 40.000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's retaliatory offensive, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its numbers. The ministry says more than 94.000 people have been wounded.
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According to witnesses, American peace activist Eisenur Ezgi Eggi was killed while she was not posing a threat to Israeli forces and during a period when passions had calmed down after clashes earlier in the afternoon, the Guardian reports.
Al-Aqsa Hospital, the main one in the central Gaza city of Deir Al Balah, said that a woman and her two children were killed in a second attack on a house in the nearby Bureij urban refugee camp, Beta reports.
Israel's military said it was investigating reports that its soldiers killed Eisenur Ezgi Egi, an activist from Seattle, while shooting at an "instigator of violent activity" at a protest site against military action. A US-Turkish citizen was shot in the head on Friday, two Palestinian doctors said.
Palestinian health officials also said that the Israeli army killed a 13-year-old girl in the West Bank village of Karyut, south of Nablus, on Friday.
Israel's military said today that an initial investigation indicated that its forces were deployed to break up riots involving Palestinian and Israeli civilians, which "involved mutual stone-throwing". Security forces fired into the air, the military said.
"A report was received regarding a Palestinian girl who was shot and killed in the area. The case is being reviewed," the statement added.
MI6 chief Sir Richard Moore and CIA director Bill Burns said the two security agencies were using their intelligence channels to strongly support restraint and de-escalation in the Middle East.
"Our services are working tirelessly to reach a ceasefire and hostage agreement in Gaza, which could end the suffering and terrible loss of life of Palestinian civilians and return the hostages after 11 months of hellish captivity by Hamas," they wrote in a joint article written for the Financial Times.
The pair said Burns played a particularly active role in the negotiations in Egypt, bringing opposing sides together to broker a hostage deal and a ceasefire in August.
At least 40.939 Palestinians have been killed and 94.616 wounded in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since October 7, the Gaza Health Ministry said on Saturday.
At least 61 people died in the previous 48 hours as Israel's war against Hamas enters its 12th month.
The White House said it was deeply troubled by the death of a US citizen who, according to Palestinian officials and witnesses, was shot in the head by Israeli soldiers during protests against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The White House also called on Israel to investigate her murder, which sparked strong reactions across the international community. The US State Department has confirmed the death of Aysenur Ezgi Eggi, a 26-year-old citizen of the USA and Turkey, who was a volunteer and peace activist of the International Solidarity Movement against the occupation, the Guardian reports.
At least 13 Palestinians were killed and 15 wounded in Israeli attacks on a school sheltering refugees and a residential building in Gaza, the official Palestinian Authority news agency reported early Saturday.
According to a Wafa report, at least eight dead were in refugee tents at the Halim Al Sadi school in Jabala, northern Gaza, reports Reuters.
The Israeli military said in a statement that it "carried out a precision strike against terrorists operating inside the Hamas command and control center... located inside the complex that formerly served as the Halim Al Sadi school in the northern Gaza Strip."
In a separate incident, five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on a residential building in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.
Israeli forces clashed with Hamas-led militants in the Gaza City suburb of Zeytun, where residents said tanks had been operating for more than a week, as well as in the eastern neighborhoods of Khan Yunis and in Rafah, near the border with Egypt, where residents said Israeli forces blew up several houses.
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