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<\/a><\/p>\nPublished On 21 Jul 202621 Jul 2026<\/p>\n
An Israeli air strike has killed a man, his wife and their four children in Gaza City in the latest of Israel\u2019s frequent deadly attacks on Palestinians in the devastated enclave, which have continued despite a US-backed \u201cceasefire\u201d signed more than nine months ago.<\/p>\n
The strike hit the al-Masri family home in the Sabra neighbourhood on Tuesday, killing Firas and Salsabeel al-Masri and their three daughters and son as the family was sleeping, health officials said.<\/p>\n
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The deaths add to a toll of more than 1,150 Palestinians, mostly civilians, killed by Israeli strikes since the \u201cceasefire\u201d was agreed. The truce has halted full-scale fighting but not the near-daily Israeli strikes that have continued since.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military confirmed the strike, saying it was targeting a Hamas member and was still looking into the results of the attack.<\/p>\n
A video obtained by the Reuters news agency showed rescue workers struggling to put out fires in the house and bring out bodies in white shrouds.<\/p>\n
Firas al-Masri\u2019s father, Abu Yusuf al-Masri, \u200ctold Reuters the explosion took place as the family was asleep.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were unable to save our grandchildren and children from the flames and the devastation. Around five or six were martyred, most of them children and women, without mercy and without any prior warning,\u201d he said, standing outside the family house.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no relative calm, and there is no safe place at all,\u201d the grey-bearded man added.<\/p>\n
Mediators \u2013 including Egypt, Qatar, Turkiye and the United States \u2013 have been trying to advance US President Donald Trump\u2019s plan for ending the conflict in Gaza, which calls for Hamas\u2019s disarmament and Israeli withdrawals, but there has been little sign of progress.<\/p>\n
The United Nations has condemned the ongoing Israeli strikes on Gaza.<\/p>\n
\u201cNine months after the announcement of a ceasefire, still nowhere is safe for Palestinians in Gaza,\u201d UN human rights office spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Israeli attacks have killed \u201cat least 57 Palestinians, including six children and eight women,\u201d from July 13 to 20, he said. The figures did not include the al-Masri family.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe killing of civilians in these attacks raises concerns of continuing violations of international humanitarian law, war crimes and other possible atrocity crimes in Gaza,\u201d Al-Kheetan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder international law, deliberately attacking civilians is a war crime.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli forces launch regular attacks on Gaza despite a US-backed \u2018ceasefire\u2019 agreed in October. Published On 21 Jul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,44,47,43,48],"class_list":["post-552410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","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\/552410","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=552410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}