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Israeli fire kills three people in Gaza, medics say

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CAIRO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Israeli ‌fire killed one person in a car in ​Gaza City and at least two others in other parts of the enclave on ⁠Thursday, health officials there said.

A crowd gathered around the burning wreckage in Gaza City's Tel Al-Hawa neighbourhood as orange-vested emergency workers sprayed ​it with water, photos from the scene showed.

Another strike killed a Palestinian man on ‌a bike in the southern city of Khan Younis, and gunfire killed a woman near the Jabalia refugee camp, in the north, the medics ⁠added.

The Israeli military said they had struck a Hamas ⁠militant in Khan Younis, without giving further details. The military added they were still checking reports of the strikes in Jabalia and Gaza City's Tel Al-Hawa suburb.

Israel, which says the Hamas militant group has been ‌rearming and launching attacks in violation of a year-old ceasefire, has ⁠stepped up strikes on the group in recent ‌weeks.

Hamas has denied trying to carry out ​attacks or rebuild its arsenal and accuses Israel of undermining the Gaza peace deal.

Last year's US-brokered ceasefire calls for eventual reconstruction of the ‌territory. But little progress has been made as ​negotiators have failed to ⁠agree terms for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw ‌its troops.

Israeli airstrikes have continued. At ⁠least 1,500 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire, according to the territory's health officials, while Israel says four soldiers have ​been killed.

Palestinian authorities say more ‌than 74,000 people have been killed in Israel's assault on Gaza, launched ⁠after Hamas-led fighters killed about ​1,200 people in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

(Reporting by Nidal ​al-Mughrabi; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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