Israeli strikes and gunfire killed ​at least nine people, including a child and a journalist from Al Jazeera, in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, health officials said.

An ‌Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinians, including two women and a child, in an apartment building in Gaza City, health officials said. The attack on the building in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City destroyed the apartment and wounded several other people, medics added, Reuters reported.

The Israeli military said it struck a militant, without elaborating.

In another incident, Israeli forces shot and killed a woman ​in Beit Lahiya town further north, medics said. An Israeli airstrike killed at least one person and wounded eight others in Khan Younis, ​south of the enclave.

Later on Saturday, an Israeli airstrike killed three people, medics said, including Ahmed Wishah, a journalist working ⁠for Al Jazeera, in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Al Jazeera said Wishah, a cameraman, was killed in what the network called ​a “heinous crime,” about two months after his brother, Mohammed Wishah, also an Al Jazeera journalist, was killed by the Israeli military.

The Palestinian Journalist Syndicate condemned Wishah’s killing on ​Saturday and called for Israeli leaders to be held accountable for such attacks, which have killed nearly 300 Palestinian journalists since the war began in October 2023.

Israel has often claimed without evidence that the journalists it has targeted in Gaza were linked to militants, including Hamas.

The Israeli military said in a statement it killed a Hamas militant, who posed a ​threat and served as an Al Jazeera photojournalist. It did not provide evidence. It said Wishah served as a “sniper,” adding that he was killed along with ​two other Hamas militants.

It had also accused the brother it killed in April of being a senior Hamas armed operative. Hamas and Al Jazeera denied that Wishah had any ‌affiliation with ⁠the group.

“Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the deliberate killing of its Al Jazeera Mubasher Channel’s cameraman Ahmed Wishah by Israeli occupation forces today, Saturday 20 June, in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a house in the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip,” Al Jazeera said in a statement.

The latest killing raised the number of Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023 to 12, Al Jazeera said.

An October ceasefire has halted major fighting between Hamas and ​Israel, but it has not ended ​Israeli attacks.

Gaza’s health ministry said more ⁠than 1,010 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli fire since the ceasefire. Militants killed four Israeli soldiers in Gaza over the same period.

Israel says its strikes are aimed at thwarting imminent attacks by Hamas and other militants. Hamas rarely discloses ​information about the deaths of its fighters.

Israel and Hamas remain deadlocked over how to proceed with the next ​stage of U.S. President ⁠Donald Trump’s Gaza plan, which involves Hamas laying down its arms and Israeli withdrawals.

Talks held by mediators Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and Trump’s Board of Peace envoy for Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, over the implementation of the second phase of Trump’s Gaza plan, have not yet reached an agreement, sources close to the talks said.

Israel says Hamas must ⁠cede power ​in Gaza, disarm, and play no role in the future governance of the enclave. Hamas links ​any full disarmament to launching a political track towards establishing a Palestinian state.

Hamas-led fighters killed 1,200 people during their cross-border attack into Israel on October 7, 2023, according to Israeli tallies. The ​Gaza health ministry said more than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since then.

Khalifa Sirajuddin Haqqani, Minister of Interior Affairs, met on Saturday with Serik Zhumangarin, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Kazakhstan.

The Ministry of Interior said in a statement that the meeting discussed the security situation, joint efforts to combat drug trafficking, transit and technology, as well as the expansion of political and economic relations and regional cooperation.

Both sides emphasized that a favorable environment has currently been created in Afghanistan for the development of trade and investment, and that it should be utilized for the progress of both nations.

Serik Zhumangarin, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Kazakhstan, said during a meeting with Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, Prime Minister of the Islamic Emirate, that Kazakhstan seeks to increase Afghanistan’s exports to the country, and for this purpose, the Afghan-Kazakh Joint Chamber of Commerce will be inaugurated in Kabul on Saturday.

According to a statement from the Arg, Zhumangarin, who arrived in Kabul on Saturday at the head of a high-level delegation, said the purpose of his visit is to expand and strengthen his country’s economic and political relations with Afghanistan.

Also present at the meeting were Amir Khan Muttaqi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nooruddin Azizi, Minister of Industry and Commerce, and Mullah Abdul Wasi, Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister’s Office.

Zhumangarin also stated that the President of Kazakhstan pays special attention to Afghanistan and closely follows relations between the two countries.

Referring to Afghanistan’s progress in various sectors under what he described as sound leadership, he said Kazakhstan is ready to cooperate with Afghanistan in all fields.

Representing the President of Kazakhstan, he also invited Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund for an official visit to Kazakhstan.

He added that Kazakhstan places special importance on humanitarian cooperation with Afghanistan, particularly support for returning migrants and Afghans affected by natural disasters. For this purpose, eight wagons of humanitarian aid, including tents, medicine, and other essential supplies, were also brought to Afghanistan today.

During the meeting, Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund described relations between the two countries as important and said notable progress has been made in various sectors, which he said is the result of cooperation among friendly countries.

He stressed that all relevant institutions will be instructed to take practical steps toward expanding cooperation and strengthening ties between Afghanistan and Kazakhstan.

Akhund also said that Afghanistan and Kazakhstan are two Muslim countries that share many political, economic, religious, and cultural commonalities.

He concluded by inviting the President of Kazakhstan for an official visit to Afghanistan.