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Sunday, October 19, 2025
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Sunday, October 19, 2025
Hamas-run agency says at least 45 killed in Israeli strikes today
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People run for cover following an Israeli strike that targeted a building in the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip on October 19, 2025. (Eyad BABA / AFP)
The Hamas-run Gaza civil defense agency and hospitals say a series of Israeli airstrikes across the territory killed at least 45 people today, updating an earlier toll.
The Israeli military said it struck dozens of Hamas targets across the Gaza Strip, after gunmen launched an attack on troops in southern Gaza that killed two soldiers and wounded three others.
“At least 45 people were killed as a result of Israeli air strikes on various areas of the Gaza Strip,” Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the civil defense agency, which operates as a rescue service under Hamas authority, tells AFP.
Four hospitals in Gaza confirmed the death toll to AFP, saying they had received the dead and wounded.
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