Father and 13-year-old son among six Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza
Israeli forces killed at least six Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, according to local health sources, including a father and his 13-year-old son. Three people died in an air attack on the Ghubain family home in Gaza City’s Daraj area. In a separate air strike on a tent in the city’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, a father and son were killed. A man was killed by Israeli gunfire in the southern city of Khan Younis.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israel has killed more than 1,600 Palestinians in the enclave since last year’s United States-brokered ceasefire, and that more than 74,000 people have been killed in the war since 7 October 2023. Attacks have continued despite that truce. The ministry describes the war as genocidal; Israel is not quoted in the report.
The killings followed the first strong storm of the season, which over the weekend flooded about 70,000 tents in Gaza within 12 hours, killing at least five people and causing about $3 million in damage, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office. Israel is blocking 60,000 mobile homes and 200,000 tents, allowing only 20,000 tents into Gaza, where about 85 percent of homes have been destroyed or damaged, and is restricting humanitarian aid. Negotiators have not agreed terms for Hamas to disarm or for Israel to withdraw troops; Israel controls about two-thirds of the territory and has ordered Palestinian residents to leave those areas.
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