5 said killed in Gaza City strike; IDF says it’s investigating, regrets any civilian harm |
The Israel Defense Forces said Friday it was investigating a strike in Gaza City which reportedly killed at least five people, including civilians.
According to the military, during operations on the Israeli side of the ceasefire line in the Strip’s north, troops spotted several suspects in “dominant structures” on the western side of the Yellow Line — meaning not in IDF-held territory.
The army said the troops fired at the suspects following their identification, but didn’t say that they were armed or how they posed a threat.
Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said it recovered five bodies killed in an artillery strike at a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City’s eastern Tuffah neighborhood.
The agency said the majority of the victims were children and that others were injured. The deaths could not be independently verified.
A spokesman for the agency, Mahmud Bassal, accused by........