Palestinians, some displaced, gather to look at a destroyed vehicle targeted by the Israeli military, in Gaza City. AFP
The incident came after two consecutive days of deadly air strikes in the territory, and took place on the Israeli-held side of the so-called Yellow Line, the demarcation behind which the military has withdrawn as part of a fragile US-brokered ceasefire.
A Gaza hospital also told AFP that one person was killed by Israeli fire in another incident near Khan Younis, in an area outside the yellow line.
On Wednesday, Gaza saw one of its deadliest days since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came into effect on October 10.
Twenty-seven people were killed in Israeli strikes across the territory, according to Gaza's civil defence agency.
The agency said five more people were killed on Thursday.
Israel has carried out repeated airstrikes in various parts of Gaza , and there have also been multiple deadly incidents of its forces firing on people approaching or crossing the Yellow Line.
According to the health ministry in Gaza, 312 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds wounded by Israeli fire since the truce took hold.
The Israeli strikes continued despite the UN Security Council voting on Monday in favour of a US-drafted resolution endorsing US President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan to end the two-year-old Israeli war in Gaza.
Since October 2023, Israel's war on Gaza has killed at least 69,546 people and wounded more than 173,000, most of them women and children.
Meanwhile, the ongoing Israeli restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid to the strip have left the 2.3 million population without adequate access to food, water, and medicine amid colder weather and winter storms.
* This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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