Children among 10 killed by Israeli strike on Gaza City home

The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 26, 2025 4:34 PM EDT | Last Updated: 15 minutes ago

An Israeli airstrike flattened a three-storey location successful Gaza City connected Saturday, sidesplitting 10 radical — fractional of them children — arsenic Arab mediators scrambled to restart a ceasefire.

Israeli strikes killed astatine slightest 49 radical successful the past 24 hours, according to wellness officials.

The dormant successful the early-morning airstrike successful a neighbourhood successful occidental Gaza City included 3 women and 5 children, according to Shifa Hospital, which received the bodies.

Israel's subject said it had struck a Hamas militant and that the operation wherever helium operated collapsed, adding that the illness was nether review.

"There is nary 1 from the absorption among them," said Saed Al-Khour, who mislaid his household successful the strike. "Since 1 o'clock until now, we person been pulling retired the remains of children, women and aged people." He stood amid the rubble, nether a tilted ceiling.

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Three different radical were killed successful the Shati exile campy on Gaza City's shoreline.

Hamas said connected Saturday that it had sent a high-level delegation to Cairo to effort to get the ceasefire — shattered past period by Israeli bombardment — backmost connected track.

Israel has vowed to proceed the warfare until each hostages are returned and Hamas is destroyed oregon disarmed and sent into exile. It says it volition clasp parts of Gaza indefinitely and instrumentality U.S. President Donald Trump's connection for the resettlement of the colonisation successful different countries, which has been wide rejected internationally.

Hamas has said that it volition lone merchandise the dozens of hostages it holds successful instrumentality for Palestinian prisoners, a implicit Israeli withdrawal and a lasting ceasefire, arsenic called for successful the now-defunct statement reached successful January.

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Hamas said that its delegation volition sermon with Egyptian officials the group's imaginativeness to extremity the war, which besides includes reconstruction.

Earlier this week, different Hamas officials arrived successful Cairo to sermon a connection that would see a five-to-seven-year truce and the merchandise of each remaining hostages, officials said.

Egypt and Qatar are processing the proposal, which would see the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and the merchandise of Palestinian prisoners, according to an Egyptian authoritative and a Hamas authoritative who spoke connected information of anonymity due to the fact that they weren't authorized to little the media.

Israeli blockade continues

Israel has continued its astir two-month blockade of Gaza, adjacent arsenic assistance groups pass that supplies are dwindling.

On Friday, the United Nations World Food Program said that its nutrient stocks successful Gaza had tally out, ending a main root of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. It said the dozens of foundation kitchens it supports are expected to tally retired of nutrient successful the coming days.

About 80 per cent of Gaza's colonisation of much than two million relies chiefly connected foundation kitchens for nutrient due to the fact that different sources person unopen down nether Israel's blockade, according to the UN.

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"Meanwhile, astir 3,000 UNRWA trucks of lifesaving assistance are acceptable to participate Gaza," the UN bureau for Palestinian refugees said connected societal media. "The siege indispensable stop."

Hamas connected Saturday called connected the Trump medication to instantly reverse its determination that the UN agency for Palestinian refugees isn't immune from being sued, calling it a unsafe measurement by Israel's adjacent ally.

Israel's violative has killed much than 51,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry. Israel says it has killed about 20,000 militants, without providing evidence.

The warfare began erstwhile Hamas-led militants stormed into confederate Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, sidesplitting about 1,200 radical and taking 251 backmost into Gaza, according to Israeli tallies. The militants inactive person 59 hostages, 24 believed to beryllium alive, aft astir of the remainder were released successful ceasefire agreements oregon different deals.