Palestinian health officials said at least 17 people were killed in Israeli air strikes in the southern Gaza Strip late Tuesday.
The attacks affected the Khan Yunis area, including areas where people displaced by more than a year of war were living in tents.
The Israeli military said in a statement that it carried out several airstrikes in the Khan Yunis area targeting militants who took part in the 2023 Hamas attack on southern Israel.
The Israel Defense Forces blamed Hamas for the actions in civilian areas.
Human rights groups and the United Nations have said civilians have no safe place to go amid ongoing Israeli attacks and ground operations in Gaza, and in a region where conflict has devastated many areas.
Earlier on Tuesday, Israel’s military said it carried out a raid in the occupied West Bank, killing at least three militants and arresting 18 others.
The Israel Defense Forces said two militants were killed in an airstrike in the village of Tamun after firing on soldiers.
Israeli forces killed another terrorist during the fighting in Talujah, while an Israeli soldier was injured.
The raid came a day after a gunman attacked a bus and a car near the West Bank town of al-Fanduq, killing three people and wounding seven others.
Violence in the West Bank has increased since Hamas’ attack on southern Israel in October 2023 and the resulting Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian health officials say at least 818 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli military gunfire and attacks by Israeli settlers during that period, while Palestinians have killed dozens of Israelis.
The war in Gaza began with a Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, in which the militants killed 1,200 people and took about 250 others hostage. There are still about 100 hostages in Gaza, at least a third of whom are believed dead.
According to the health ministry in Gaza, Israel’s retaliatory attacks killed at least 45,800 people and injured more than 109,000. The ministry does not differentiate between terrorists and civilians in its calculations.
The United States, United Kingdom, European Union, and others have designated Hamas as a terrorist group.
Some information for this report was provided by The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters