At least 45 people were killed in a wave of Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to Gaza�s Hamas-run civil defense agency and local hospitals, which updated an earlier casualty count.

The IDF said it carried out strikes on �dozens of Hamas targets� following an attack by gunmen in southern Gaza that left two Israeli soldiers dead and three others wounded.

Mahmud Bassal, a spokesperson for the Hamas-run civil defense agency, told AFP that �at least 45 people were killed as a result of Israeli air strikes on various areas of the Gaza Strip.�

Four hospitals in the enclave confirmed the death toll to AFP, saying they had received both the dead and wounded.

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