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Hamas-run civil defense agency says 5 killed in Israeli strike on tent in Gaza City
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Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency says that five people were killed in an Israeli strike on a tent in Gaza City — all members of a single family, according to relatives.
The figures cannot be verified and do not differentiate between civilians and fighters.
“Three children, their mother and her husband were sleeping inside a tent and were bombed by an [Israeli] occupation aircraft,” family member Omar Abu al-Kass tells AFP.
The strikes came “without warning and without having done anything wrong,” Abu al-Kass adds, who says he was the children’s maternal grandfather.
AFP images from the scene showed mourners, some of them weeping, gathering alongside five white shrouds of different sizes.
“Five martyrs and wounded in an [Israeli] occupation airstrike on a tent in the Sabra neighbourhood” of Gaza City, civil defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal tells AFP.
The Israeli army, which resumed its offensive in Gaza on March 18 after a two-month truce, did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the strike.
Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and stresses that Hamas uses Gaza’s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.
The Times of Israel Community.