GAZA CITY, Palestine: Gaza’s civil defence agency said Saturday that 15 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the Palestinian territory including five in one strike in Gaza City.
“Fifteen people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza since dawn,” civil defence official Mohammed al-Mughayyir said.
Five people were killed in an air strike on a tent in Gaza City at dawn he said.
Elsewhere in the territory, where Israel’s army resumed its offensive in March following a two-month truce, four people were killed in an Israeli bombardment in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
One child was killed in gunfire by the Israeli navy on the coast of Rafah, in the south of Gaza, Mughayyir added.
AFP images showed mourners alongside bodies wrapped in white shrouds, which relatives said belonged to a single family killed in the Gaza City strike.
“Three children, their mother and her husband were sleeping inside a tent and were bombed by an (Israeli) occupation aircraft,” family member Omar Abu al-Kass told AFP.
The strikes came “without warning and without having done anything wrong,” added Abu al-Kass, who said he was the children’s maternal grandfather.
The Israeli army did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the strike.
The new German foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, who was due to visit Israel, called for “serious discussions for a ceasefire” in Gaza, where the humanitarian situation “is now unbearable”.
Wadephul is scheduled to meet with his Israeli counterpart, Gideon Saar, on Sunday, followed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israel launched relentless bombardment campaign on Gaza after Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel, which killed 1,218 people on the Israeli side.
Since October 2023, Israeli military campaign has killed at least 52,810 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to figures from the territory’s health ministry, which the United Nations considers reliable. – Agencies
