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Fresh Israeli strikes pound Gaza

Published: 02:06 PM,Jun 30,2026 | EDITED : 06:06 PM,Jun 30,2026

Displaced Palestinians gather to receive hot meals distributed by a charity kitchen in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on June 29, 2026. Gaza remains gripped by daily violence, with both the Israeli military and Hamas accusing one another of violating the truce in effect since October 10. The war flattened swathes of the territory, displaced most of the population at least once, and left hundreds of thousands of people living in tents and temporary shelters. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)
 
Displaced Palestinians gather to receive hot meals distributed by a charity kitchen in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on June 29, 2026. Gaza remains gripped by daily violence, with both the Israeli military and Hamas accusing one another of violating the truce in effect since October 10. The war flattened swathes of the territory, displaced most of the population at least once, and left hundreds of thousands of people living in tents and temporary shelters. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)

GAZA CITY: Gaza health officials said Israeli strikes killed five people including a child in the Palestinian territory. A ceasefire is in place in the Israel-Hamas war, but it has not ended the violence and progress towards a final deal to end the war has stalled. 'Three people were killed and several injured when an Israeli drone struck a group of civilians,' Al Aqsa Hospital said in a statement, adding that one of the victims was a child aged eight years old.
Gaza's civil defence agency, which acts as a rescue force under Hamas, said the strike hit an area in Deir el Balah in central Gaza.
An Israeli military source confirmed the attack. Later, Gaza's civil defence agency reported two people killed and more than 27 injured in an Israeli air strike on a tent on Khan Yunis beach in the south of the territory. Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis confirmed receiving the bodies of the dead.
At least 1,045 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect on October 10 last year, according to the territory's health ministry, which operates under Hamas authority and whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations. — AFP