Israeli attacks kill 11, including two children, in day of strikes on Gaza
The Israeli army has killed at least 11 Palestinians, including two children, in separate attacks in the war-torn Gaza Strip. latest violations by Israel of a “ceasefire” with Hamas that came into effect on October 10 last year.
Gaza Civil Defense authorities and the Reuters news agency said a three-year-old and a 14-year-old were among those killed in Israeli strikes in the northern part of the enclave on Tuesday.
Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for Gaza Civil Defense, said four people were killed, including a three-year-old child, “in a strike targeting a police vehicle” in Gaza City.
Gaza’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that Israeli warplanes “targeted” the police vehicle in the city center, “causing several deaths and injuries,” with one police officer among the dead and at least nine bystanders injured, some seriously.
Bassal also said another person was killed by Israeli fire in the northern Beit Lahiya region earlier in the day.
Later Tuesday evening, Civil Defense reported that another Israeli strike killed several people near an intersection in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.
Doctors at Al-Shifa Hospital later confirmed they had received five bodies from an “Israeli drone bombing”, involving two missiles, which hit a group of people in the Shati refugee camp.
Reuters reported that the Israeli strike hit near a cafe and, in addition to those killed, it also injured several people, according to health officials.
Despite a “ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas that began last October and slowed two years of Israel’s genocidal war on GazaIsraeli forces continue to carry out daily strikes on the territory, killing nearly 760 Palestinians since the truce agreement.
The Gaza Health Ministry said on Tuesday that an additional 2,111 Palestinians have been injured in Israeli attacks since the ceasefire was announced, while a total of 72,336 people have been killed by Israeli forces since the Israeli war in the territory began on October 7, 2023.
