GAZA: Gaza health officials said Israeli strikes on Saturday killed five people, including four members of the same family, in the latest violence to rock the Palestinian territory despite a ceasefire. An overnight Israeli air strike on an apartment building in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City killed four members of the Al Safadi family, including the husband, wife and their two daughters, according to the civil defence agency, a rescue service that operates under Hamas authority. It said the strike also injured 12 others.
Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital confirmed receiving the bodies of four members of the Al Safadi family, including two children. "Around 2 o'clock, my cousins were asleep when a missile struck them. They have no connection to Hamas, nor are they involved in anything. They're just innocent children," said Nael al Safadi, a relative. Footage from the scene showed an exterior wall of the apartment blown off, exposing rubble, clothes, mattresses and other household belongings strewn across the shattered interior. — AFP
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