Israeli fire kills five in Gaza
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Israeli strikes and gunfire on Thursday killed five people across Gaza, including a woman and a 12-year-old boy, rescue services in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory told AFP.
Israeli strikes and gunfire on Thursday killed five people across Gaza, including a woman and a 12-year-old boy, rescue services in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory told AFP.
Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for Gaza’s civil defence agency, told AFP that a 12-year-old boy was killed by Israeli gunfire east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
A few kilometres away, near the town of Al-Zawayda, two people were killed in separate Israeli strikes, he added. The nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital confirmed to AFP that all three were dead on arrival.
In southern Gaza, a woman was killed by Israeli gunfire near the city of Khan Yunis, Bassal said. Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis confirmed her death to AFP.
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