Israeli airstrikes killed three Palestinians, including two brothers, in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, November 11, local health officials said, according to Reuters, reporting from Cairo.

Source: Reuters

Medics said one man was killed when an Israeli airstrike hit the rooftop of a residential building in Gaza City. Another airstrike in the nearby Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood killed two brothers, Mahmoud and Jamil Al-Absi, at a tent housing displaced people.

Source: Reuters

The Palestinian news agency WAFA, reported by Jordan's Petra news agency, independently reported the same attacks: an Israeli strike on Wednesday killed two Palestinians and injured others at a tent sheltering displaced people in Sheikh Radwan, in northern Gaza City, and WAFA, citing medical sources, put the total killed in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza City since the morning at three.

Source: WAFA via Petra (Fana News)

Commenting on the two strikes, the Israeli military said it struck militants it described as terrorists in both areas, without giving further details, Reuters reported. Israel says Hamas is trying to regroup and refill its arsenal; Hamas says it is committed to the ceasefire agreement and accuses Israel of trying to undermine it. Both claims are the sides' own positions and were not independently verified.

Wednesday's deaths follow Tuesday's strikes, when the day's toll in Gaza rose to at least seven, including three people killed at a metal foundry in the Sabra neighbourhood. Read: Gaza's Tuesday toll rises to at least seven

In Gaza City's Sabra neighbourhood, people on Wednesday inspected the site of that metal foundry and the nearby tents hit on Tuesday, Reuters reported — a reminder that the same districts are being struck on consecutive days while displaced families remain in tents with nowhere safer to go.

3Palestinians killed in Wednesday's Gaza City strikes, medics and WAFA say
1,622Killed since the October 11 ceasefire last year, WAFA figure; Reuters reports health officials saying at least 1,600
5,878Injured since the ceasefire, WAFA figure
74,000+Killed in Israel's assault on Gaza overall, Palestinian authorities say

WAFA reported that since the ceasefire of October 11 last year, the toll in Gaza has risen to 1,622 killed, with 5,878 people injured and 850 bodies recovered. Reuters, citing the territory's health officials, reports at least 1,600 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since the ceasefire agreement, while Israel says four of its soldiers have been killed in the same period. Palestinian authorities say more than 74,000 people have been killed in Israel's assault on Gaza in total.

A ceasefire that has not stopped the killing

A US-brokered ceasefire last year called for the eventual reconstruction of Gaza, but little progress has been made, Reuters reported. Strikes have continued through the ceasefire period, and each new day's toll is now reported against a background in which more than 1,600 people have been killed since the agreement that was meant to stop the fighting.

What happens next: there was no immediate announcement of any change to the ceasefire arrangements after Wednesday's strikes, and no details from the Israeli military beyond its statement that it hit militants in both areas. For the families in Sheikh Radwan's tents, the immediate question remains shelter and safety through another night, as winter approaches and reconstruction has yet to begin in any serious way.