Israeli pre-dawn strike on Gaza apartment kills 2
The Israeli military struck an apartment in Gaza before dawn, killing two people and injuring others.
The two people killed were a man and his wife, according to Shifa Hospital, which received the bodies.
The Israeli military said it struck a Hamas militant.
The attack followed a series of strikes on Monday that killed at least four people. They came more than a year after Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire. But the death toll in Gaza continues to rise as Israel carries out near-daily strikes on what it says are members of Hamas.
More than 1,500 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed by Israel since last year’s ceasefire, according to the territory’s health ministry, which maintains detailed records and is seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. The ministry, part of the Hamas-run government, does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its toll but says women and children make up nearly half the dead.
Source: Associated Press
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