She was returned to her family in Iraq after a complex operation involving the United States, Jordan and others, the Israeli military said.

The Islamist group Hamas rejected what it called "a false narrative and fabricated story" about a Yazidi woman Israel said was freed in Gaza in a secret operation involving Israel, the United States and Iraq.

A 21-year-old Yazidi woman has been rescued from Gaza where she had been held captive by Hamas for years after being trafficked by ISIS.

Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 60 Palestinians overnight, including in a school sheltering displaced families, medics said, as Israeli tanks advanced in areas of Khan Younis in the south of the enclave.

The airstrike in the Bachoura neighborhood was the deadliest so far in the Lebanese capital. The area is close to government and U.N. buildings.