Family of five, including three children, killed in Israeli strike on Gaza

Family of five, including three children, killed in Israeli strike on Gaza

A family of five -- three children and their parents -- was among the 11 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza on Saturday, according to the territory’s civil defence and hospitals.

A ceasefire remains in place between Israel and Hamas, but it has not halted the violence in Gaza, and efforts to secure a lasting agreement to end the war have stalled.

The family was killed when an Israeli strike hit a residential apartment in the northwest of Gaza City, according to the territory's civil defence agency.

"The family's only surviving member is one child, who was not inside the house at the time of the strike," Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for the agency, told AFP.

Three more people were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a group of civilians in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, the agency reported.

Hours later, Bassal announced the death of a woman after "Israeli artillery shelling" struck "a tent sheltering displaced people" east of the Zeitoun neighbourhood.

Health officials said two other people were killed elsewhere in Israeli attacks in Gaza.

Watch | A Palestinian child breaks down over the bodies of his father, mother, and three siblings after his family was wiped out in a deadly Israeli airstrike targeting a residential apartment in Gaza City’s Al-Nasr neighborhood earlier today. pic.twitter.com/eDtBfe5380

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