GAZA CITY: Gaza’s civil defence agency reported that Israeli airstrikes killed four people on Thursday, while the Israeli military said it had eliminated four militants who had posed a threat to its troops.
It came as Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopened for a limited number of people, for the first time since Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iran at the end of February.
The civil defence agency, which operates as a rescue force under Hamas authority, said strikes in two neighbourhoods of Gaza City killed a total of four people. Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City said it received two bodies following an Israeli strike on the Tuffah neighbourhood east of Gaza City. Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital said it had also received two bodies following an Israeli drone strike on the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City.
The military said troops identified “four armed terrorists” in the area of the so-called Yellow Line -- the de facto boundary behind which Israeli forces have been stationed since the ceasefire took effect.In another development Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt reopened on Thursday for a limited number of people, Palestinian and Egyptian officials told AFP, for the first time since Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iran.
