Bodies are brought to Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital after an Israeli strike Saturday [Getty]
Gaza health officials said Israeli strikes on Saturday killed at least 11 people, including four members of the same family, in the latest violence to rock the Palestinian territory despite a ceasefire.
Gaza Strip remains gripped by bloodshed as progress on permanently ending the war remains stalled, and with near-daily Israeli violations of an October 2025 truce.
An overnight Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City killed four members of the Al-Safadi family, including the husband, wife and their two daughters, according to the civil defence agency. It said the strike also injured 12 others.
Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital confirmed receiving the bodies of four members of the Safadi family, including two children.
“Around 2 o’clock, my cousins were asleep when a missile struck them. They have no connection to Hamas, nor are they involved in anything. They’re just innocent children,” said Nael al-Safadi, a relative.
AFP footage from the scene showed an exterior wall of the apartment blown off, exposing rubble, clothes, mattresses and other household belongings strewn across the shattered interior.
“By God, I still feel as though I’m in a dream – I never expected this to happen to us,” Mohammad al-Safadi, who survived the strike, told AFP.
“I’m a civilian. I swear to God I’ve never carried a weapon or fired one. What do you want from me? Go after whoever you’re after, what’s my fault in this?”
Al-Shifa hospital, meanwhile, said it had received one body following a separate Israeli drone strike near an intersection in the north of Gaza City.
Later on Saturday, six more people were killed in separate Israeli attacks, including three when an Israeli aircraft targeted a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, the civil defence agency reported.
It said the three killed included a local Palestinian journalist working with Qatar-based Al Jazeera.
Ahmed Wishah was a cameraman for the channel, the network said, which condemned “the continuation of these crimes” against its journalists. His brother was also previously killed.
At least 1,012 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October last year, according to the territory’s health ministry. More than 73,000 people have been killed since the war began in October 2023.
The Israeli army has reported five deaths in its ranks during the same period.
Restrictions imposed on media outlets and limited access in Gaza prevent AFP from independently verifying tolls or freely covering the violence there.
