Israeli strikes kill 10 people in Gaza Strip
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CAIRO: Israeli strikes killed at least 10 Palestinians, including five members of the same family, in separate attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said.
Medics in Gaza said Israeli aircraft struck four apartments before dawn, including the family’s home, killing nine people and wounding at least 15.
Later on Thursday, a separate airstrike killed one person and wounded others near Wehda Street in Gaza City, medics said, taking the day’s death toll to at least 10.
A footage after the first strike showed a blown-out building with charred and damaged furniture, with debris strewn across the road. A video circulating on Palestinian social media showed people entering an apartment with blankets to recover bodies.
“We were woken up by the strike at 2:30am. We found pieces of flesh and people were sleeping. They say the war is over but the war is not over,” Khalil Batran, a neighbour of the family who were killed, said. A girl was the only survivor of the strike on the family home, medics said.
“There is no safety in Gaza ... Every day they fire at us from there and strike us with missiles. It’s futile,” Batran added.
Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City also reported 15 people wounded in the strikes, he added. Despite a truce technically in effect since October, daily violence has rocked the Gaza Strip, over half of which is under Israeli military control in defiance of the ceasefire’s terms.
Israel has killed at least 936 people since the ceasefire began, according to Gaza’s health ministry, which operates under Hamas authority and whose figures are considered reliable by the UN. Both Hamas and Israel accuse each other of violating the ceasefire.
A transition to the second phase of the ceasefire, which was supposed to involve Hamas’s disarmament and a gradual withdrawal of the Israeli army, has been stalled for months.
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had ordered the military to take control of 70 percent of the Gaza Strip.
The latest head of Hamas’s armed wing in Gaza, Mohammed Odeh, was killed in an Israeli strike last week, a month after his predecessor was also killed.
Published in Dawn, June 5th, 2026
