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CAIRO/GAZA: Israeli fire killed at least nine Palestinians, including two children, in separate incidents across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday,
local health officials said, in the latest violence to undermine a US-brokered ceasefire agreement.
Four people, including a three-year-old boy, Yahya Al?Malahi, were killed in a strike that had targeted a police vehicle in Gaza City, the Hamas-run Interior Ministry said. A police officer was among the dead, while nine bystanders were wounded, some critically, it said.
In the north of the enclave, near Jabalia, Israeli fire killed a 14-year-old child, Adam Ahmed Halaa, health authorities and his family said.
Later on Tuesday, an Israeli airstrike hit near a cafe in the Beach camp in western Gaza City, killing at least three people and wounding several others, health officials said.
Israel’s military did not immediately provide comment on either incident.
At Gaza’s largest hospital, Al Shifa, relatives rushed to pay farewell to those killed.
Carrying his little boy in his arms, Mukhlis Al-Malahi said they were leaving a relative’s wedding when the Israeli plane attacked the police vehicle. “We got close to Timraz crossroad with Nafaq (street); then, we suddenly found something hitting us. They hit a police vehicle as we walked,” the father, whose shirt was stained with his son’s blood, told Reuters.
“What is his fault? What is his crime? He should be wearing a wedding suit at his cousin’s today, but instead, he wore a shroud stained with blood,” cried the young boy’s cousin, Hader Al-Malahi.
