Israeli attacks in Gaza including gun shooting and explosions resulted in at least two deaths on Thursday, according to Palestinian Authority.
Israeli troops opened fire on Palestinians with guns in multiple locations across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing one child and injured three other people, according to the Palestinian official news agency.
In a statement issued on Thursday, the Gaza-based civil defense department also reported three other separate explosions of shells left behind by Israeli forces, which led to the death of one child and injuries of several other Palestinians.
One of the explosions took place inside the al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip.
The statement pointed out that such incidents have been occurring frequently in residential areas recently, posing a serious threat to the lives and safety of civilians.
Relevant international organizations, Israel, and the United States should bear full responsibility for that, it said.
The Gaza civil defense department questioned the delays and excuses made by the international institutions in cooperating to clear the unexploded ordnance.
The communication with the so-called Civil-Military Coordination Center established by the United States has yielded no substantive results, said the department.
Israeli attacks in Gaza result in at least 2 more deaths
The European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday announced that it would keep key interest rates unchanged amid tentative signs of economic stabilization in the eurozone.
The central bank reconfirmed in the latest edition of their forecast that inflation will swing around 2 percent from 2025 to 2028, with headline average inflation estimated at 2.1 percent in 2025, 1.9 percent in 2026, 1.8 percent in 2027, and 2.0 percent in 2028.
The interest rates on the deposit facility, the main refinancing operations, and the marginal lending facility will remain unchanged at 2 percent, 2.15 percent, and 2.4 percent, respectively.
The ECB repeated in a statement that it is "not pre-committing to a particular rate path".
The projections reconfirm "inflation should stabilize at the 2 percent target in the medium term," said the ECB statement.
Thanks to stronger consumption and investment, the euro zone economy grew by 0.3 percent in the third quarter. The ECB expects domestic demand to continue to drive up the economic growth in the euro zone in the coming years.
Forecast of the euro zone economic growth has been revised up to 1.4 percent in 2025, 1.2 percent in 2026, 1.4 percent in 2027 and 1.4 percent in 2028.
The "robust labor market", according to the ECB, also contributed to the economic growth in the third quarter. Unemployment rate stood at 6.4 percent in October, which was close to the historical low.
ECB keeps rates unchanged
