Add StudioX as a preferred source on GoogleIsraeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least eight people, including a child, according to hospitals, despite a ceasefire that took effect a year ago. The information comes from BBC News Middle East.
Attacks in Gaza City and Khan Younis
In Gaza City, in the north, hospital officials said a missile hit a group of civilians next to Cairo School in the Al-Rimal neighbourhood. Three people were killed, including a four-year-old boy.
In the southern city of Khan Younis, the Hamas-run ministry of interior said a drone attack targeted a group of police officers in the Al-Mawasi area. It said five officers were killed while carrying out routine duties. The ministry named them and said they were aged between 23 and 53. It described the attack as a massacre.
The Israeli military said it carried out two attacks on what it described as military operatives. It has not yet provided evidence or further information.
Grief at the hospitals
Video from outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City showed a crowd of men gathered to pray next to two body bags and the small body of the child, wrapped in a white towel.
Ali Oweis told AFP news agency that his son and his son’s child were killed while sitting in their tent. He said nothing else was happening in the area when the missile struck. “There is no ceasefire; the war is ongoing, don’t you see?” he said.
At Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, video showed women in despair as body bags lay on the floor.
A ceasefire under strain
The ceasefire came into force in Gaza in October last year, but Israeli air strikes have continued almost every day. Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry says 1,580 people have been killed since then. The UN considers the ministry’s figures reliable. Israel says it is targeting Hamas, but civilians are often killed as well.
Under the ceasefire, thousands of Palestinians held by Israel were released in return for all of the 48 remaining hostages held in Gaza. The two sides also agreed to end the war. A peace plan for Gaza brokered by the Trump administration has since stalled.
The conflict was triggered by the Hamas-led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023, when about 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage. According to the territory’s health ministry, 74,594 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began.
Source: BBC News Middle East
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