Gaza’s civil defence agency has said an Israeli strike on a residential building in the Shujaiya area of Gaza City killed at least 20 people, as the military said they were looking into the attack, AFP reports.

The agency’s spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the strike resulted in “20 martyrs and more than 40 injured” and the search for bodies in the rubble was ongoing.

 Women mourn Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, at Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on April 9, 2025. — Reuters
Women mourn Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, at Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on April 9, 2025. — Reuters

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