GAZA CITY — At least 11 Palestinians, including two children and three journalists, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn, with six others injured, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.

An Israeli strike in the center of Gaza on Wednesday killed three journalists, including a freelancer who previously worked for AFP, despite the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, the civil defense said.

In a statement, the agency said "the bodies of the three journalists killed in an Israeli air strike in the Al-Zahra area southwest of Gaza City were transported to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah".

It named the dead as Mohammed Salah Qashta, Abdul Raouf Shaat and Anas Ghneim. Shaat previously worked for AFP as a photo and video journalist. The Israeli military said it was checking the reports.

The three journalists worked for a committee supervising Egyptian aid in Gaza and were documenting developments on the ground in central Gaza near the so-called Netzarim Corridor when they were hit in an Israeli strike, health officials told Al Jazeera. A fourth person was also killed in the attack, an Al Jazeera team on the ground reported.

Video footage circulating online showed their charred, bombed-out vehicle by the roadside, smoke still rising from the wreckage.

Mohammed Mansour, the committee’s spokesman, told The Associated Press news agency that the journalists were filming a newly established displacement camp. He said the strike occurred about 5km (3 miles) from Israeli-controlled territory and that the vehicle was known to the Israeli military as belonging to the Egyptian committee.

Israeli Army Radio, citing an Israeli security source, said that the Israeli Air Force had targeted a vehicle in central Gaza, claiming that its occupants were using a drone to collect intelligence on army forces.

In a separate attack in central Gaza, three other Palestinians from a single family – including a child – were killed in eastern Deir el-Balah, sources at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said.

The victims were a father, his son and another relative, the sources said.

In southern Gaza, a 13-year-old was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.

The Associated Press said, quoting hospital staff, that the child was shot while collecting firewood in the eastern town of Bani Suheila.

In footage circulated online, the boy’s father could be seen weeping over his son’s body on a hospital bed.

A 32-year-old woman was shot and killed in a separate attack in the vicinity of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, an Al Jazeera team reported.

Two other Palestinians were killed in attacks in the north of the strip, the Wafa news agency reported.

Palestinian officials said Israel has repeatedly violated the United States-brokered ceasefire since it came into effect on October 10.

Israel continues to restrict the entry of food, medical aid and shelter materials into Gaza, where about 2.2 million people face acute humanitarian need in cold weather, barely shielded by flimsy tents.

Meanwhile, Jewish Israelis set fire early Wednesday morning to three bulldozers, a vehicle and equipment at a quarry complex in the village of Urif, south of Nablus.

The Palestinian news agency WAFA said a "group of settlers" attacked the site and torched equipment belonging to a Palestinian resident. — Agencies