GAZA: Two Palestinian riding on a motorcycle in Gaza were killed in an explosion on Tuesday, health officials said.
Israel’s military denied accounts by local residents that they were killed in an air strike.
Violence along the Israel-Gaza border has flared since U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition last week of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the Israeli military’s demolition on Sunday of a cross-border tunnel it said was dug by Hamas, the group that controls the small coastal enclave.
After the explosion on Tuesday that killed the two Palestinians, an Israeli military statement said: “Contrary to Palestinian reports … the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) did not attack in the northern Gaza Strip.”
