Israel continued bombarding Gaza with a barrage of air strikes on Sunday morning, killing two Palestinians and wounding three others, officials and witnesses said.
The latest killings raised the death toll to at least nine that include a pregnant woman and a baby who were killed by Israeli air raids which began on Saturday.
Two Palestinians were killed when Israeli jets targeted a group of people in Al-Bureij refugee camp, according to eyewitnesses.
Medical sources at Al Aqsa hospital confirmed the deaths to Anadolu Agency.
Three Palestinian were also wounded in another Israeli air strike on Al Shati refugee camp, according to eyewitnesses.
Meanwhile, Israeli media and police said a 60-year-old Israeli man was killed early Sunday as a rocket hit his home in Ashkelon city.
According to Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz, the man succumbed to his wounds shortly after he was transferred to Barzilai Hospital.
Gaza-based journalist Hind Khoudary has more from the Palestinian enclave.
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Explosions shook the enclave, where busy streets were packed with shoppers preparing for Ramadan.
On Saturday, the Gaza health ministry said a 14-month old baby (Siba Abu Erar), her pregnant mother (Filstin Abu Erar) and another five Palestinians were killed by Israeli air strikes.
"The Israeli plane fired a missile near the house and the shrapnel entered the house and hit the poor baby," said her aunt, Ibtessam Abu Arar.
Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum in a statement said the movement "hails the Palestinian resistance, which defends the Palestinian people against the Israeli occupation."
"The resistance fulfils its national and moral duty towards the Palestinian people, as it is responsible for the safety and security of the Palestinian people."
It added that after the "Israeli occupation shed the blood of the Palestinian people at the Great Return March last Friday, the Palestinian resistance decided to defend the Palestinian people against the Israeli crimes."
Hamas, which governs Gaza said it "holds the Israeli occupation responsible for any repercussions of its crimes, violations, and rejection to implement the ceasefire understandings."
A building housing Turkey's state news agency and Turkish charity Yardimeli Dernegi, had also been hit.
Several Turkish officials have condemned the attack.
They have called on the international community to act on Israel's 'disproportionate actions'.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun took to Twitter to condemn the attack.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas also condemned Israel's actions in Gaza.
"Israel's hitting Anadolu Agency's office [in Gaza] is an attempt to get rid of the witnesses, a preparation of massacres in Gaza," the Palestinian government said in a statement.
Some two million Palestinians live in Gaza, whose economy has suffered years of Israeli enforced blockades as well as recent foreign aid cuts.
Unemployment stands at 52 percent, according to the World Bank, and poverty is rampant.
Hamas leader Yayha Sinwar is in Cairo for talks on efforts to maintain calm along the border and alleviate Israeli enforced hardship in the enclave.
"Egypt has stepped up its efforts with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Israel, but there is no conclusion yet," said a Palestinian official familiar with Cairo’s mediation efforts.
The United Nations has also been part of the Cairo talks.
"The United Nations is working with Egypt and all sides to calm the situation," said UN Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov.
Over the past few weeks, Cairo’s mediation had helped persuade Israel to lift some restrictions on the movement of goods and people in and out of Gaza and expand the Mediterranean zone where Palestinians can fish to earn living.
But Israel scaled back the fishing zone this week and shut the border crossings entirely on Saturday.
This article has been adapted from its original source.
