Gaza rescuers say 11 from one family killed in Israeli strike

Gaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike hit a house in Gaza City on
Saturday morning and killed 11 members of a single family, including women
and children.

“We have recovered the bodies of 11 martyrs, including four children and
three women, after an Israeli air strike hit the house of the Bustan family
in eastern Gaza City,” agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.

The strike took place near the Shujaiya school in the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood
of Gaza City, he said.

“Rescuers are continuing to search for the missing,” Bassal said.

The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the strike.

Bassal said Israeli forces carried out similar strikes in some other parts of
the Hamas-run territory overnight, killing at least 10 people.

Five people were killed in northwestern Gaza City when an air strike hit a
group of people near Dar Al-Arqam school, he said.

Three others were killed in a strike in the Al-Mawasi area of the southern
Khan Yunis governorate, where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians
have sought refuge, Bassal added.

The war in Gaza broke out after the October 7 attack by Hamas on southern
Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,205 people, mostly civilians,
according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.

Militants also seized 251 captives during the attack, 97 of whom are still
held in Gaza, including 33 the Israeli military says are dead. The count
includes hostages killed in captivity.

Israel’s retaliatory military campaign has so far killed at least 41,118
people in Gaza, according to the health ministry of the Hamas-run territory,
which does not provide details of civilian and militant deaths. The UN human
rights office says most of the dead have been women or children. (BSS/AFP)