At least 18 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on Khan Younis in Gaza’s south, with two more deaths reported in Gaza City in the north and one in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the centre of the enclave, according to our team on the ground.

Israeli warplanes are also bombing the eastern areas of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum in Deir el-Balah.

At least 39,175 people have been killed and 90,403 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is estimated at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.

Palestinians have rallied in Aqqaba near Tubas in the occupied West Bank to condemn the death of a Hamas leader in Israeli custody, Reuters reports.

Mustafa Muhammad Abu Ara, 63, died after he was transferred to a hospital from the Ramon jail in southern Israel due to deteriorating health, the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society and the Palestinian Commission for Detainees Affairs said in a statement.

Abu Ara, who was from Aqqaba, was arrested in October last year and subjected to torture and deprived of medical treatment, the organisations said. He is the 19th detainee known to have died in Israeli custody since October 7.

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