Four children among dead as restrictions on evacuations put in place days after reopening of crossing to Egypt
Israeli tank shelling and airstrikes have killed 18 people, including four children, in Gaza and Israel has halted the evacuation of patients through the Rafah border crossing, Palestinian officials have said.
The Israeli military said it fired on Gaza after a gunman shot at Israeli soldiers and seriously injured a reservist.
The strikes targeted Gaza City and the southern city of Khan Younis. A Gazan health official said Israel had also halted the passage of patients through the Rafah border crossing to Egypt, two days after it had reopened, allowing a trickle of Palestinians to cross for the first time in months.
The Red Crescent said patients had arrived at a hospital in Khan Younis in preparation for crossing Rafah for treatment, only to be informed that Israel had postponed the evacuations.
