Israeli airstrikes kill nine Palestinians, including four children, in Gaza
Nine Palestinians, including four children, were killed in Israeli pre-dawn airstrikes on four residential buildings in Gaza City on Thursday, medics said, shattering a fragile ceasefire that has held since 10 October 2025. The strikes, which local health officials described as “indiscriminate,” reduced entire apartments to rubble and left at least 30 others wounded, some with life-threatening burns and traumatic amputations. Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital received the most critically injured, where doctors reported treating patients “dismembered or severely burned” amid the wreckage.
Civil defence spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told Agence France-Presse that rescue teams were still extracting survivors from the debris as Israeli warplanes continued to circle overhead. “We have pulled nine bodies from the rubble so far, including four children,” Bassal said. “The toll will rise.” Palestinian health ministry officials, speaking to Reuters, confirmed the fatalities and injuries, adding that three of the dead were women. The Israeli military has not issued an immediate statement on the raids.
The attacks occurred hours after Lebanon and Israel agreed to a 48-hour ceasefire along their border, brokered by UNIFIL peacekeepers. The fragile truce, set to expire on Saturday, followed the killing of an Italian UN peacekeeper in southern Lebanon on Wednesday. In Gaza, however, the ceasefire has been repeatedly violated. Since October, Israeli operations have killed more than 4,200 Palestinians in Gaza, according to Gaza’s health ministry, while Hamas and other factions have launched sporadic rocket fire into southern Israel.
International observers condemned the latest escalation. The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, called the strikes “a blatant violation of international humanitarian law” and urged both sides to return to negotiations. “Civilians, especially children, must be protected at all costs,” Borrell said in a statement. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that 70% of Gaza’s population is now displaced, with reconstruction efforts stalled by political obstruction.
Local residents described scenes of chaos in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, where the strikes hit. “We were asleep when the first missile hit,” said 32-year-old teacher Amal al-Hissi. “My neighbour’s entire family—mother, father, three children—are gone. The ceasefire is a joke.” The Israeli military has previously justified such operations as targeting “Hamas command centres,” but no militant group has claimed responsibility for the targeted buildings.
As the ceasefire’s expiration looms, diplomats warn of further escalation. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to meet with regional leaders in Cairo on 22 June to discuss a broader peace framework. Meanwhile, in Gaza, the sound of drones and distant explosions has already resumed, casting doubt on whether the latest truce will hold.
Israeli airstrikes kill nine Palestinians, including four children, in Gaza
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