{"id":10635,"date":"2026-01-08T23:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=10635"},"modified":"2026-01-08T23:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:02:20","slug":"at-least-13-killed-in-israeli-strikes-on-gaza-including-five-children-civil-defence-agency-says-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=10635","title":{"rendered":"At least 13 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza, including five children, civil defence agency says | Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Gaza\u2019s civil defence agency said Israeli attacks in the Palestinian territory on Thursday killed at least 13 people, including five children, despite a ceasefire that has largely halted the fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Four people including three children were killed when a drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people in southern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gaza\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Gaza<\/a>, agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">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 Younis in the south killed a man, the agency added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Two more Palestinians in Gaza, including a child, were killed in other attacks, reported the agency, which operates under Hamas authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">When asked by AFP, the Israeli military said it was checking the reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Later on Thursday evening, four more people were killed in an Israeli airstrike 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe death toll has risen to 13 as a result of Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since this morning in a clear violation of the ceasefire agreement,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Earlier on Thursday, the Israeli military said a projectile was launched \u201cfrom the area of Gaza City toward the state of Israel\u201d but that it fell within the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cShortly after, the (military) precisely struck the launch point,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Since 10 October, a fragile US-sponsored truce in Gaza has largely halted the fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas, but both sides have alleged frequent ceasefire violations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem told AFP that the strikes in Gaza on Thursday \u201cconfirm the Israeli occupation\u2019s renunciation of its commitment to the ceasefire\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Israeli forces have killed at least 425 Palestinians in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect, according to Gaza\u2019s health ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">At least 21 people were killed on 22 November in Israeli strikes, making it one of the deadliest days in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Israeli military said militants have killed three of its soldiers during the same period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#killed #Israeli #strikes #Gaza #including #children #civil #defence #agency #Gaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaza\u2019s civil defence agency sa&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}