GAZA/JERUSALEM - A Palestinian was killed and another wounded in two Israeli attacks across Gaza on Saturday, according to Palestinian sources.

In the first attack, Israeli tanks fired shells and opened heavy machine-gun fire toward Palestinians east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza, killing one Palestinian man, according to sources at Gaza's health authorities.

Al-Awda Hospital confirmed in a statement that it has received the body of the dead.

In the second attack, Israeli gunfire in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, injured a young man, the Civil Defense in Gaza said.

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Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that it killed two Palestinians, one in northern Gaza and the other in the south, claiming that the two and a third crossed the "Yellow Line," a demarcation marking areas where Israeli forces remain deployed in Gaza, and approached IDF troops.

The ceasefire reached between Israel and Hamas, which took effect on Oct 10, has sharply reduced Israeli attacks but not halted them entirely. At least 241 Palestinians have been killed and 614 injured by Israeli attacks since Oct 11, Gaza's health authorities said Saturday, bringing the overall death toll from Israeli attacks since October 2023 to 69,169, with 170,685 others injured.

Also on Saturday, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, recovered  the body of an Israeli soldier captured during the 2014 conflict, from a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a source from the group said.

The source, who requested anonymity, told Xinhua that the remains were identified as those of Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin.

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According to the source, the bodies of six Al-Qassam fighters were also found alongside Goldin's.

The recovery operation was carried out after Israeli authorities allowed Al-Qassam members, accompanied by teams from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), to enter Rafah earlier in the day to search for Goldin's remains, the source added.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army.

Goldin was captured in August 2014 during clashes with Al-Qassam fighters in eastern Rafah. Hamas later announced his capture and displayed his rifle as a war trophy, while the Israeli army declared him killed.

This marks the first reported recovery operation in Rafah since a ceasefire took effect on Oct 10. The city remains largely under Israeli control, and residents have yet to be allowed to return as it is still designated a restricted area.

Israel also handed over the remains of 15 Palestinians to the Gaza Strip through the ICRC on Saturday, a day after Palestinian militants returned the remains of an Israeli hostage under the ongoing ceasefire agreement.

The handover followed Israel's confirmation that the remains transferred by Hamas the previous night belonged to a reserve soldier killed during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct 7, 2023.

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The hostage was identified as 61-year-old Lior Rudaeff, whose body had been held by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, according to a statement by the IDF.

The latest exchange brings the total number of Palestinian bodies returned to 300, while 23 hostage bodies have so far been returned to Israel.

The remains of four Israelis and one Thai national are still in Gaza, out of 28 hostage bodies that Hamas is obligated to return under the ceasefire agreement that took effect on Oct 10.

In addition to the deceased, Hamas has released 20 living Israeli captives, while Israel has freed 250 Palestinian prisoners serving long sentences and 1,718 detainees from Gaza as part of the truce deal.