Series of 'Israeli' airstrikes target Gaza neighborhoods
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'Israeli' airstrikes hit multiple sites across Gaza, targeting homes, schools, and shelters, leaving civilians, including children, dead and injured.
Gaza's civil defence agency said 'Israeli' attacks in the Palestinian territory on Thursday killed at least 14 people, including five children, despite a ceasefire that has largely halted the fighting.
Four people including three children were killed when a drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza, agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.
In the north of the Gaza Strip, an 11-year-old girl was killed near the Jabalia refugee camp and a strike on a school killed one person, while a drone near Khan Yunis in the south killed a man, the agency added.
Two more Gazans, including a child, were killed in other attacks, reported the agency, which operates under Hamas authority.
When asked by AFP, the 'Israeli' military said it was checking the reports.
Later on Thursday evening, four more people were killed in an 'Israeli' air strike that targeted a house in an eastern area of Gaza City, Bassal said, adding that rescue work to search for several people who were missing had begun.
"The death toll has risen to 14 as a result of Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since this morning in a clear violation of the ceasefire agreement," Bassal said.
Since October 10, a fragile US-sponsored truce in Gaza has largely halted the fighting between 'Israeli' forces and Hamas, but 'Israel' has repeatedly violated the ceasefire.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told AFP that the strikes in Gaza on Thursday "confirm the Israeli occupation's renunciation of its commitment to the ceasefire".
'Israeli' forces have killed at least 425 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect, according to Gaza's health ministry.
At least 21 people were killed on November 22 in 'Israeli' strikes, making it one of the deadliest days in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect.
