Israeli strikes kill Palestinians in Gaza amid flooding

Israeli airstrikes killed Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday and Wednesday, including two brothers at a tent sheltering displaced people, as casualty reports differed over Tuesday’s death toll and the United Nations appealed for emergency shelter aid amid flooding.

Local medics said Mahmoud and Jamil al-Absi were killed Wednesday when an Israeli strike hit their tent in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City. The Israeli military said it had struck militants in Sheikh Radwan and at a rooftop in the city, describing those targeted as militants or terrorists, but gave no further details, according to one account.

A separate Wednesday strike killed a man on the rooftop of a residential building, local health officials said. Another report said the victim was filling a water container when he was struck. Gaza’s Health Ministry said Israeli attacks killed at least eight Palestinians and wounded 29 in the 24 hours covered by its Wednesday update. The ministry’s figure covers a 24-hour period, rather than only Wednesday’s incidents.

Reports of Tuesday’s deaths also varied. Local health officials and medics put the toll at at least seven, including Fadi Rajab and his 13-year-old son,...