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3, including girl, reported killed by IDF airstrike in central Gaza overnight

By Noam Lehmann 9 March 2026, 1:19 pm
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An internally displaced Palestinian woman reacts at a camp following an overnight Israeli strike in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on March 9, 2026. (Eyad Baba / AFP)
An internally displaced Palestinian woman reacts at a camp following an overnight Israeli strike in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on March 9, 2026. (Eyad Baba / AFP)

Palestinian media outlets report two women and a girl were killed and 10 people wounded overnight in an Israeli airstrike on a displaced people’s camp in central Gaza’s Al-Zawaida, on the Hamas-controlled side of the Gaza ceasefire line.

The IDF has not commented on the strike but regularly attributes such attacks to alleged ceasefire violations by Hamas.

The dead are identified by Palestinian media as Salsabeel Farraj, 12; Nour al-Shalalfeh, 30; and Amal Shemali, 46. Shemali was a correspondent for Radio Qatar, according to the reports. The three were taken to Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza’s Nuseirat.

Separately, Julia al-Qudra, who is identified in Palestinian media as a young girl but whose age is not specified, reportedly died overnight at Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital after being seriously wounded Saturday in an IDF strike that also killed her father in the southern Gaza city.

The IDF said after the strike Saturday that it targeted a Hamas operative in the southern Gaza Strip who was planning an imminent sniper attack against troops.

According to Palestinian media outlets, three men were killed and several people wounded yesterday in an IDF strike in Gaza City, in the Strip’s north.

The bodies of the dead were reportedly brought to Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital. The IDF said it targeted two Hamas operatives who were planning an imminent sniper attack against troops in the northern Gaza Strip.

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