Gaza Civil Defence Says At Least 45 Killed In Israeli Strikes Sunday

Gaza’s civil defence agency and hospitals said on Sunday that at least 45 people were killed in a series of Israeli air strikes across the territory, revising an earlier death toll of 33.

The Israeli military said it had targeted dozens of Hamas sites across the Gaza Strip, as both Israel and Hamas accused each other of violating the nine-day-old ceasefire brokered by US President Donald Trump.

“At least 45 people were killed as a result of Israeli air strikes on various areas of the Gaza Strip,” Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the civil defence agency — which operates as a rescue service under Hamas authority — told AFP.

Four hospitals in Gaza confirmed the toll to AFP, saying they had received the bodies and wounded.

Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat reported 24 dead and 73 injured from multiple strikes in central Gaza.
Al-Aqsa Hospital said it received 12 bodies from nearby bombings, while Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis reported five fatalities, and Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City confirmed four.

Earlier, Bassal detailed several of the attacks.

Six people were killed when an Israeli strike targeted a “group of civilians” in Zuwaida town, central Gaza, he said.

Another six, including children, were killed and 13 others wounded in two separate strikes near Nuseirat, also in central Gaza.

A woman and two children died when a drone strike hit a tent sheltering displaced people near Asdaa City, north of Khan Yunis.

Two people, including a journalist, were killed and several others injured in a strike in the western part of Zuwaida town.

In another attack, two more people died and several were injured when a tent in the Al-Ahli Club area in Nuseirat was hit, Bassal said.

Two others were killed in an air strike in eastern Jabalia, northern Gaza, while one person died after a strike on an apartment building in western Gaza City.

Bassal added that several victims later succumbed to injuries sustained in the attacks.

The Israeli military told AFP it was verifying reports of casualties.

Later on Sunday, the Israeli military said it had resumed enforcing the ceasefire in Gaza.