Israel’s military has killed at least three Palestinians in attacks across Gaza despite a United States-brokered ceasefire, as authorities in the war-torn territory reported that the overall death toll has now risen above 69,000.

The latest killings on Saturday came as Hamas also announced retrieving the remains of an Israeli soldier from a tunnel near Rafah in southern Gaza.

The victims of Israel’s attacks on Saturday included a Palestinian man, who was killed in the central Bureij refugee camp, according to medical sources.

The Israeli military also announced killing two other Palestinians who allegedly crossed the so-called “yellow line” in northern and southern parts of the territory.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza said Israeli forces have killed more than 240 Palestinians since the ceasefire came into effect on October 10.

It also said the total number of people killed in the enclave since October 7, 2023, had risen to 69,169, after more of the dead were identified and more bodies were recovered from the rubble.

Adding to the death toll, a Palestinian child was killed after an explosive device left behind by Israeli forces in the city of Khan Younis detonated, according to Nasser Hospital.

In the occupied West Bank, too, the killings have continued, according to officials.

Health authorities said that Israeli forces shot Abdel Rahman Darawsha during a raid on the Al Far’a refugee camp, near the city of Tubas, and that he died of his wounds at a hospital later.

Israeli captive

Hamas, meanwhile, said it has retrieved the remains of Israeli officer Hadar Goldin, who was captured and reported killed during an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip in 2014.

Goldin is one of the five remaining captives meant to be returned to Israel under the terms of the ceasefire deal.

Hamas also said that the bodies of six Palestinians were recovered from the site, too.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, said that Goldin’s body was recovered from the city of Rafah, which has been under Israeli control for more than a year.

“We’ve got reports that the Israeli captive was retrieved from a tunnel that the Israeli military inspected multiple times over the past year,” he said.

“What is so controversial here is that the Israeli military announced that Goldin was killed in action, although his body was never returned until this day. But now also reports from Qassam Brigades suggest that six of the security members who were escorting his body in captivity were found killed at the same site, which raises serious concerns that they were killed by Israeli raids in the area,” he added.

The developments came as the World Health Organization (WHO) called for the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt to be reopened for urgent medical evacuations.

About 4,000 Palestinian patients have left Gaza through Rafah for treatment in Egypt and elsewhere, with another 16,500 patients still waiting to get medical care abroad, according to the WHO.

“The Rafah crossing is a vital exit for medical evacuations and a key entry for health supplies into Gaza. Egypt remains one of the main destinations for patients needing urgent care,” the agency wrote in a social media post.

Military and settler raids intensify

Separately, in the occupied West Bank, military raids and settler attacks continued in an apparent drive to force Palestinians from their land, as part of the Israeli government’s illegal settlement expansion across the territory.

Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinian villagers, activists and journalists who had gathered on Saturday to harvest olives in the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.

Jonathan Pollak, an Israeli anti-apartheid activist, who was helping Palestinians harvest their olives, described to Al Jazeera how a group of dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked with clubs.

The settlers descended from a hill and “started hurling … huge rocks at us, and we had to flee”, Pollak told Al Jazeera.

He said the assault led to more than a dozen injuries that required medical attention, including a journalist who was bludgeoned by the settlers, and a 70-year-old activist who had his cheekbone and jaw broken.

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said in a statement that five journalists – Ranin Sawafteh, Mohammed al-Atrash, Louay Saeed, Nasser Ishtayeh and Nael Bouaitel – were injured in the assault.

The syndicate condemned the attack, calling it a “war crime aimed at killing them”.

The Reuters news agency confirmed that two of its employees, a journalist and a security adviser accompanying her, were among those injured in the attack.

Israeli settlers have been carrying out near-daily assaults on Palestinian farmers and their lands during this year’s olive harvest in the occupied West Bank, targeting one of the most vital symbols of Palestinian heritage and livelihood.

The harvest comes amid a wave of settler violence. The United Nations says at least 126 attacks have been recorded since September in 70 towns and villages, with more than 4,000 olive trees and saplings vandalised or uprooted.

On Saturday, Israeli settlers also attacked Palestinian homes in the village of Raba, southeast of Jenin, under the protection of armed Israeli soldiers, who entered the village at the same time as the attacks, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

The soldiers also arrested a 13-year-old in the town of Yabad, near Jenin, after beating him in the street, and a young man in the town of al-Mazraa ash-Sharqiya, near Ramallah.

Separately, in ar-Ram, north of occupied East Jerusalem, a Palestinian man was shot in the leg near Israel’s separation wall and transferred to a medical facility in Ramallah, according to Wafa.

Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinians suffered from tear gas inhalation after Israeli forces fired gas canisters at worshippers performing evening prayers at the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Mosque in Salem, a village east of Nablus.