GAZA: Gaza's civil defence agency said on Tuesday that Israeli strikes overnight killed at least 19 people across the Palestinian territory, where Israel has resumed its offensive. Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said that "19 civilians including several children were martyred" and dozens more wounded in the latest Israeli raids. Five children and four adults were killed in a strike that hit a home in the central city of Deir Al Balah, while two separate pre-dawn attacks on Gaza City and Beit Lahia in the north left a total of 10 people dead, Bassal said.
Separately, a media outlet affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement announced the death of an employee named Ahmed Mansur in an Israeli strike on a tent used by journalists in the Khan Yunis area. The Gaza government media office had on Monday reported the death of journalist Hilmi al Faqaawi, who worked for a local news agency, in the same strike, which also wounded another nine. Efforts to restore the truce have so far failed. — AFP
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