At least nine people have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli strike in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza, the enclave’s Government Media Office said Saturday, making it the deadliest incident since a ceasefire went into effect in January.

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Gaza's civil defence agency said nine people, including journalists, were killed in Israeli strikes on Saturday, attacks which could further endanger the fragile truce in the Palestinian territory.

At least nine people, including two journalists, were killed in an Israeli drone attack in northern Gaza on Saturday, according to Palestinian sources. Medical staff reported that members of a rescue team operating in the northern town of Beit Lahia were among the victims,

An NGO says six volunteers were "deliberately targeted" and killed while on their way to deliver aid. The Israeli military says it struck two individuals who it identified as "terrorists" and later struck several other suspects.

At least five Palestinians were killed, including two local journalists, and others wounded on Saturday in an Israeli strike on Gaza's northern Beit Lahiya town, medics told Reuters, as Hamas' leaders hold Gaza ceasefire talks with mediators in Cairo.

Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza killed at least eight people, including a local journalist, on Saturday, as tensions escalated amid stalled ceasef.

Israel on Saturday carried out airstrikes in northern Gaza's Beit Lahiya, killing at least nine people, including journalists, and wounding several others, according to Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry.

Two back-to-back Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza killed at least nine people on Saturday, according to Gaza civil defense. Witnesses say several of those killed were aid workers and journalists.