AFP, Gaza City

Gaza’s civil defence service and hospitals said Israeli attacks killed at least six people on Sunday evening, in the latest violence to hit the Palestinian territory despite a months-old ceasefire.

Israel and Hamas trade near-daily accusations of truce violations and the Gaza Strip remains gripped by bloodshed as progress on permanently ending the war remains stalled.

An Israeli airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza killed four people and wounded several others, said the civil defence agency, a rescue service that operates under Hamas authority.

Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital said it received four bodies from the strike and treated five injured people. An Israeli military spokesman told AFP that the Jabalia attack had “struck Hamas terrorists”.

Two other people were killed by Israeli gunfire in separate incidents in the southern Khan Yunis area, the civil defence said.

The Israeli military did not comment on those two incidents. At least 986 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect on October 10 last year, according to Gaza’s health ministry, which operates under Hamas authority and whose figures are considered reliable by the UN. Israeli settlers torched vehicles and attempted to set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank Sunday, Palestinian news agency reported, as the Israeli military deployed troops to quell what it described as violent riots by “Israeli civilians.”

According to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa, settlers carried out two attacks in the West Bank late on Sunday. In the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah, a group of settlers set fire to a car, broke down the door of a mosque and set its entrance alight before fleeing, Wafa reported.