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<\/a><\/p>\nPublished On 20 Jun 202620 Jun 2026<\/p>\n
At least five people have been killed in Gaza after overnight Israeli strikes hit a residential area in the besieged enclave.<\/p>\n
The attacks around 2:00 am on Saturday (23:00 GMT Friday)\u00a0hit a building on al-Thalatini Street in Gaza City, medical sources told the Wafa news agency.<\/p>\n
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Among those killed were a father and his two daughters \u2013 four-year-old Zina and 14-year-old Lana. The mother was wounded and died later on Saturday. Several others were injured.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was sitting at home. The rocket fell on us without a warning,\u201d said their relative Mohammad Safadi, who had a forehead wound. He said both he and his wife were wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis ceasefire the occupation and the negotiation team speak of \u2026 is this really a ceasefire? We are civilians. I never held a weapon,\u201d Safadi said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe area had not received any prior warning before the strikes,\u201d said Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Abuo Azzum, reporting from Gaza. \u201cThis is a grim reality that\u2019s growing day in, day out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Five people were injured earlier on Friday evening after Israeli air strikes targeted a tent sheltering displaced families in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Wafa reported heavy gunfire on Saturday coming from Israeli naval vessels off the coast of southern Gaza.<\/p>\n
Since a ceasefire brokered by the United States in October, at least 1,007 people in Gaza have been killed while 3,165 others have been wounded, according to health authorities.<\/p>\n
At least 73,018 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war in October 2023.<\/p>\n
Israel restricts the entry of food, medical aid and shelter materials into Gaza, where about 2.2 million people have acute humanitarian needs. Israel\u2019s military also continues to occupy large swaths of Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel has repeatedly violated the October ceasefire brokered by the US. Published On 20 Jun 202620 Jun 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50,1155,2128,85,46,44,47,43,48],"class_list":["post-502505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-gaza","tag-human-rights","tag-humanitarian-crises","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}