A Palestinian child amid the rubble of a humanitarian aid warehouse and an UNRWA shelter, heavily damaged by an Israeli night strike in Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, on May 10, 2025. (Credit: Bashar Taleb / AFP)
The Palestinian Civil Defense reported Sunday that eight people, including four young children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on tents sheltering displaced families in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.
According to Mahmoud Bassal, spokesperson for the Civil Defense in Gaza, Israeli warplanes targeted three tents overnight, killing “eight people, including four children aged two to five and two women.” The Israeli army, which resumed its offensive against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza on March 18 after a two-month truce, has not yet commented on the strike.
AFP footage shows rescuers evacuating bodies in the dark — one in a white plastic bag, another in a blanket — as well as an injured baby being carried into an ambulance.
Bassal also reported that the Israeli military blew up five houses in eastern Gaza City and shelled the town of Abassan, east of Khan Younis. No injuries were reported from those incidents.
The war in Gaza was triggered by the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack in southern Israel, which killed 1,218 people — mostly civilians — according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli data. In response, Israeli reprisals have killed at least 52,810 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, figures deemed reliable by the United Nations.
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