GAZA, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Three Palestinians were killed and 14 others injured on Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a vehicle in the al-Mawasi area in the southern Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and local medical sources.

Displaced Palestinians inspect the site targeted by Israeli warplanes, in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on March 16, 2026. (File photo: AFP)

The Red Crescent Society said in a press statement that the three bodies were taken to its al-Mawasi field hospital.

Medical sources told Xinhua that the airstrike also wounded 14 others, who were taken to the hospital for first aid and treatment.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army on the incident.

Gaza's health authorities said on Tuesday that the death toll since October 7, 2023, has risen to 72,249, with 171,898 wounded.

The authorities added that the death toll since a ceasefire came into effect in October 2025 has reached 673, with 1,799 injuries.

Separately, Hamas said in a statement on Monday night that a Hamas leadership delegation visited the Iranian embassy in Ankara and offered condolences on the death of Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as well as other senior Iranian officials.

"The Hamas leadership delegation affirmed the movement's strongest condemnation of the heinous aggression against the Islamic Republic," the statement said.