Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Hospitals in Gaza said at least 17 people, six of them children, had been killed by Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire on the south and north of the strip on Wednesday.
Israel said it carried out precision strikes in response to a "blatant violation" of the cease-fire in place after militants opened fire in the north, seriously injuring a soldier near the so-called Yellow Line separating areas occupied by its forces from those that remain under Hamas control.
The military said Israel Defense Forces units were conducting "routine operational activity" when they came under attack.
In Gaza City, the Al-Shifa hospital said 13 bodies were brought there, including five children, after they were killed in strikes on eastern areas of the city while Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the south said it had received four bodies, including one child, following strikes on encampments of displaced people in the Qizan Rashwan district.
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