Key facts
- At least four Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on Wednesday.
- One of the targets was identified as a Hamas finance chief.
- Two Palestinians were killed and two others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a vehicle in western Khan Younis.
- The Israeli military confirmed targeting a militant in the Khan Younis strike.
- Israeli forces shot dead a 29-year-old Palestinian near Ramallah on Wednesday.
- Israeli settlers razed olive trees and set fire to a vehicle in the West Bank.
Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday killed at least four Palestinians, with officials identifying one of the targets as a Hamas finance chief. Medics reported that two men died when an Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle in western Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave, and that two other people were wounded. The Israeli military confirmed the strike, stating it had targeted a militant and that more information would be released later. No Palestinian militant group claimed the two dead men.
Palestinian authorities state that more than 73,000 people have been killed in Israel's assault on Gaza, which was launched after Hamas-led fighters killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel in October 2023. A US-brokered ceasefire agreed last year calls for the eventual reconstruction of the territory, but little progress has been made as negotiators have failed to agree terms for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw its troops. Israeli airstrikes have continued.
According to the territory's health officials, at least 1,381 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect, while the Israeli military says four Israeli soldiers have been killed. Separately, three Palestinians were killed and others injured in Israeli airstrikes and shelling across Gaza City on Tuesday, according to Wafa news agency. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers razed Palestinian-owned land planted with olive trees in Huwwara, south of Nablus. Israeli forces also abducted Qutaiba Imad Abu Arra from his home in Aqaba, north of Tubas, according to Quds News Network. In Hebron, settlers set fire to a vehicle belonging to Palestinian workers near Yatta, Al Jazeera reported.