An Israeli strike in Gaza killed at least eight people from the same family, most of them women and children, Palestinian medics said Tuesday.
The strike late Monday hit a house in Gaza City’s central neighborhood of Daraj, according to the Gaza Health Ministry’s ambulance and emergency service. Among the bodies recovered from the rubble were a father and his three children, and the children’s grandmother, according to a casualty list obtained by The Associated Press.
The Israeli army said the airstrike targeted a Hamas militant in a “terrorist infrastructure site.” Israel blames Hamas for civilian casualties, saying militants often operate in residential areas in the densely populated Gaza Strip.
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