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The nearby Al-Awda hospital said it had received one fatality and two wounded.

The Israeli military said it had struck “an armed Hamas terrorist cell”, adding that militants had approached what is known as the Yellow Line and “planned to execute a terror attack against IDF troops in the immediate timeframe”.

The Yellow Line is the de facto boundary dividing Gaza into two zones: one under Israeli military control and one under Hamas control.

The military did not specify how many people were killed in the incident.

Israel and Hamas regularly accuse each other of violating the ceasefire, which came into effect after two years of war.

At least 749 Palestinians have been killed since the truce began, according to Gaza’s health ministry, which is considered reliable by the United Nations. The Israeli army has reported five soldiers killed in Gaza since the start of the truce.