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At least 29 Palestinians, including six children, were killed on Sunday in a series of Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip, according to the territory’s civil defence agency. The renewed bombardment comes amid a week of stalled indirect ceasefire talks in Qatar between Israel and Hamas.
Spokesperson for Gaza’s civil defence, Mahmud Bassal, confirmed the deaths, saying that multiple strikes overnight and early Sunday targeted several locations, including densely populated areas and sites sheltering displaced civilians.
In one of the deadliest incidents, an Israeli air strike reportedly hit a family home near the Nuseirat refugee camp south of Gaza City, killing ten people and injuring several others.
Further casualties were recorded in central Gaza, where a drone attack struck a potable water distribution point within a displacement zone at the Nuseirat camp. Bassal stated that the strike killed eight individuals, including six children, and left many more wounded.
In the southern part of the territory, three more people lost their lives when jets targeted a tent sheltering displaced families in the coastal Al-Mawasi area, Bassal added.
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The Israeli military has not issued a statement on the latest attacks, though on Saturday it reported targeting over 35 “Hamas terror sites” in Beit Hanun, a town in northern Gaza.
More than 21 months into the war, sparked by Hamas’s October 2023 cross-border assault, Israel has intensified its military operations across the enclave. The conflict has displaced the vast majority of Gaza’s two million residents, exacerbating an already dire humanitarian crisis.
Due to limited access and media restrictions within Gaza, independent verification of casualty figures and damage assessments remains difficult.