“Several families had taken refuge in the house, which was targeted by a single missile without any prior warning,” said the spokesman for the Gaza Civil Defense.
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The Gaza Civil Defense reported on Saturday, September 14, the death of eleven people, including women and children, in an Israeli night strike on a house in Gaza City sheltering Palestinians displaced by the war.
“We recovered the bodies of eleven martyrs, including four children and three women, after an Israeli warplane carried out a strike on a three-story house belonging to the Boustane family,” Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told AFP.
He said the strike took place around 1 a.m. Saturday (2200 GMT Friday) near the Shujaiya school in the al-Touffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.“Several families had taken refuge in the house, which was targeted by a single missile without any prior warning,” the spokesman said again, reporting many injuries. “The search continues to find the missing persons”he added.
The Israeli army confirmed that it carried out a night strike. Israeli forces struck the “commander” of a Hamas cell in the Daraj Tuffah area, which was “involved in the planning and execution of terrorist activities”, she stressed in a statement. She said she was “aware of allegations that several civilians had been killed” in the strike.
The spokesman for the Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip, devastated by more than eleven months of war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, added that five other people had been killed in Gaza City by an Israeli air strike that hit a school converted into a shelter. The Israeli army claimed to have targeted Hamas fighters there.
Also in Gaza City, an Israeli strike killed five people near another school, according to the Civil Defense. In the south of the besieged territory, three other people were killed in a strike on the al-Mawassi area of Khan Younis, where tens of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the war have sought refuge, according to the same source.