Ma'an – Palestinian medical sources announced on Sunday morning that two activists were killed and a third was injured by Israeli fire east of Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. According to local residents, an undercover Israeli force infiltrated the refugee camp and clashed with combatants affiliated to Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades and the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades. Yousif Mousa from the Al-Quds Brigades, and Alaa Zuraiy from the An-Nasser Brigades were killed.Palestinian medical sources also announced on Sunday that nine Palestinian citizens were injured, including two children, near the An-Nada towers in the northern Gaza Strip by an Israeli artillery shell, another citizen is feared dead. Muawiya Hassanein, the director of the Ambulance and Emergency Department of the Palestinian health ministry named five of the injured as twenty-five-year-old Azzam Al-Ajrami, twenty-one-year-old Nidal Abu Rukba, thirty-year-old Jihad Deifallah, ten-year-old Saed Abu Al-Qumsan and seven-year-old Muna Abu Nahil. He said they were sent to Kamal Udwan hospital describing their injuries as serious. Hassanein added that three others were taken to Al-Awda hospital. Cooperation is ongoing with the Israelis to search for the ninth Palestinian believed to have been killed.
On Saturday, Israeli forces killed two brothers from Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip as they came close to the Erez crossing at Beit Hanoun. There has been an escalation in Israeli military operations on the Gaza border in the lead up to the Annapolis summit in the US, due to begin on Tuesday.