Updates: Hamas-Israel ceasefire holds

The Palestinian group Hamas denounced a series of Israeli air strikes Wednesday in the Gaza Strip as a "dangerous escalation", warning they jeopardised a fragile ceasefire.

"We consider this a dangerous escalation through which the war criminal (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu seeks to resume the genocide against our people," Hamas wrote in a statement.

At least 25 Palestinians were killed in four Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday in a part of Gaza under Hamas control since a shaky ceasefire took effect in October, health authorities said.

Medics said 10 people were killed in the Gaza City suburb of Zeitoun, two in Shejaia suburb to the east and the rest in two separate attacks in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military said its forces struck Hamas targets across Gaza after members of the Palestinian group fired on its troops in violation of the nearly six-week-old ceasefire. No Israeli forces were injured.

Repeated shooting incidents have pointed to the fragility of the ceasefire. Israel and Hamas have traded blame for what both call violations of the US-brokered truce, the first stage of President Donald Trump's 20-point plan for a post-war Gaza.

All three attacks were far beyond an agreed-upon imaginary "yellow line" separating the areas under Israeli and Palestinian control, according to medics, witnesses and Palestinian media.

The Zeitoun attack was on a building belonging to Muslim religious authorities and the Khan Younis attack was on a UN-run club, both of which house displaced families.

At the site of the attack in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp, just outside Sidon, life appeared normal on Wednesday, but Lebanese authorities prevented journalists from entering the port city, Al Jazeera reported.

At the scene of the strike, paramedics searched for human remains around a wall that was stained with blood.

Several cars were burned, and broken glass and debris littered the ground.

At least 13 people have been reported killed and four wounded in the attack that took place.

Death toll from Israeli attacks since October 10 Gaza truce has reached 279, Al Jazeera reported citing Gaza’s Government Media Office.

The Israeli forces, it said carried out 393 attacks which also wounded 652 people.

Lebanon said an Israeli strike on Tuesday night on a crowded Palestinian refugee camp in the country's south killed at least 13 people, as Israel said it struck a Hamas compound.

The resistance group denied it had military installations in Palestinian camps in Lebanon and called Israel's claims "lies".

An AFP correspondent saw firefighters putting out a blaze on the lower floor of a stricken building, as gunmen fired shots to clear crowds from the path of ambulances that were streaming into Ain al-Helweh, the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, located on the outskirts of the coastal city of Sidon.

Israel has kept up strikes on Lebanon despite a ceasefire agreed last November that sought to halt more than a year of hostilities with Hamas ally Hezbollah, including two months of full-blown war.

Israel usually says it is targeting operatives or sites belonging to the Iran-backed Hezbollah but it has also struck Hamas operatives in Lebanon.

Lebanon's health ministry reported "13 dead and a number of others wounded" in the strike, adding that "ambulances are still transporting more wounded to nearby hospitals".

The state-run National News Agency said the strike targeted a car in a parking lot near the Khalid bin al-Walid mosque and that "subsequently it was reported that the raid also targeted" the mosque itself and a centre of the same name.

The AFP correspondent did not see any damage to the mosque, while a medic said that rescue workers were removing body parts from the area.

The Israeli military said in a statement that it "struck terrorists who operated in a Hamas training compound in the Ain al-Helweh area in southern Lebanon", adding that it was "operating against Hamas's establishment in Lebanon".

But Hamas, blaming Israel for a "brutal assault" on the Ain al-Helweh camp, said in a statement that "claims that the targeted location was a 'training compound affiliated with the movement' are pure fabrications and lies."

US President Donald Trump has said that Gaza Board of Peace will have heads of state from many countries.

“Lot more safety in Gaza in the present than earlier,” the US president added.

Hamas said it had no military installations in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, dismissing Israel's claims of having hit a Hamas training compound on Tuesday as "lies".

Blaming Israel for a "brutal assault" on the Ain al-Helweh camp, Hamas said in a statement that "claims that the targeted location was a 'training compound affiliated with the movement' are pure fabrications and lies," as it insisted: "There are no military installations in the Palestinian camps in Lebanon."

An Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese city of Sidon killed 11 people and wounded four others, said the Lebanese Health Ministry.

The Israeli military said that it struck "militants" whom it said were operating in a training compound in the crowded Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon.

The military said the compound has been used by the Palestinian movement Hamas to carry out attacks against Israel.

There was no immediate comment from Hamas on the strike.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) said Tuesday that his kingdom wanted to normalise relations with Israel through US President Donald Trump's Abraham Accords, but first needed a "clear path" to Palestinian statehood.

"We want to be part of the Abraham Accords. But we also want to be sure that we secure a clear path of two-state solution," MBS said in the Oval Office alongside Trump. "We're going to work on that, to be sure that we can prepare the right situation as soon as possible," he added.

Pressed by Trump, who said that his guest had a "very good feeling" for the Abraham Accords, the prince said: "We want peace for the Israelis. We want peace for the Palestinians." "We want them to coexist peacefully in the region, and we will do our best to reach that date."

The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco in 2020 became the first Arab states in decades to normalise relations with Israel under the Abraham Accords, hailed by Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a signature diplomatic triumph.

Saudi Arabia would be a much bigger prize due to its status as guardian of the holiest sites and its influence in the Arab and Islamic worlds. Unlike the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia has repeatedly said that Palestinian statehood is its goal.

Netanyahu has long opposed a two-state solution, despite a lukewarm endorsement of Palestinian aspirations in a ceasefire agreement in Gaza pushed by Trump. Netanyahu leads a coalition with far-right supporters who not only reject Palestinian statehood but also want Israel to annex the West Bank.