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Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill Eight Including Child
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In Short: Al Jazeera reported that at least eight Palestinians, including a four-year-old boy, were killed by Israeli military strikes in Gaza, citing hospital sources.
Al Jazeera reported that at least eight Palestinians, including a four-year-old boy, were killed by Israeli military strikes in Gaza, citing hospital sources. Arabnews confirmed the death toll, stating that Israeli strikes killed at least three Palestinians and wounded several others in the Gaza Strip on Monday.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health condemned the “horrific massacre” and called on the international community to take urgent action and exert pressure on Israel to stop its killing of policemen. Hamas also condemned the latest Israeli attacks as a “deliberate war crime,” stating that the targeting of police officers while they perform their duties is part of Israel’s attempt to obstruct recovery efforts and sow chaos.
Newscord reported that Israeli airstrikes on Sunday killed at least eight Gazans, including a three-year-old child and five police officers, according to medical and Civil Defense rescue sources. Arabnews confirmed that Israeli strikes killed eight Palestinians, including a child and five police officers, in the Gaza Strip Sunday, according to local hospitals, emergency services, and the territory’s Interior Ministry.
The Israeli military has escalated its strikes in recent days, targeting multiple locations across the besieged territory in ongoing violations of the ceasefire agreement that has been in effect since October 2023. The IDF announced Friday that a Hamas commander who invaded Israel on October 7 and held multiple Israelis hostage in Gaza was killed in a recent Israeli airstrike.
Al Jazeera and Arabnews reported that Israel has imposed a full closure of the occupied West Bank after an attack in Hebron that killed two Israeli soldiers, leading to the arrest of dozens of Palestinians and the displacement of families.
The reports from Al Jazeera and Arabnews agree that at least eight Palestinians, including a child, were killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza, and that the Israeli military has continued to target police officers and civilians despite the ceasefire agreement.
The reports from Al Jazeera and Arabnews also agree that the Israeli military has imposed a full closure of the occupied West Bank after an attack in Hebron that killed two Israeli soldiers, leading to the arrest of dozens of Palestinians and the displacement of families.
What's confirmed
- At least 74,594 Palestinians have been killed since Israel launched its genocidal war in October 2023, in response to the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
- Mourners attend the funeral of five Palestinians, who were killed in an Israeli strike Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least eight people, including a child, according to hospitals, despite a year-old ceasefire.
- Israeli strikes killed eight Palestinians, including a child and five police officers, in the Gaza Strip Sunday, according to local hospitals, emergency services and the territory’s Interior Ministry.
- Medics said three people were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
- Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon kill at least 12 Israel carried out airstrikes early Monday on the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Rumman, killing at least 12 people, including a paramedic, four women and two children, the Health Ministry said.
- (OSV News) — The pastor of Gaza’s only Catholic parish revealed that Pope Leo XIV sent a personal condolence message following an Israeli missile strike that killed five people, including a Christian mother and daughter.
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