CAIRO/GAZA: Israeli strikes killed at least 10 Palestinians, including five members of the same family, in separate attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said.
Medics in Gaza said Israeli aircraft struck four apartments before dawn, including the family’s home, killing nine people and wounding at least 15.
Later on Thursday, a separate airstrike killed one person and wounded others near Wehda Street in Gaza City, medics said, taking the day’s death toll to at least 10.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment.
Reuters footage after the first strike showed a blown-out building with charred and damaged furniture, with debris strewn across the road.
A video circulating on Palestinian social media, which Reuters could not immediately verify, showed people entering an apartment with blankets to recover bodies.
“We were woken up by the strike at 2:30 am. We found pieces of flesh and people were sleeping. They say the war is over but the war is not over,” Khalil Batran, a neighbour of the family who were killed, told Reuters.
A girl was the only survivor of the strike on the family home, medics said.
“There is no safety in Gaza ... Every day they fire at us from there and strike us with missiles. It’s futile,” Batran added.
Meanwhiile, Israel´s Supreme Court has struck down a government ban preventing International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegates from visiting Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, prompting calls on Thursday to resume such visits.
In its judgement issued on Wednesday, the court found that the government had not offered sufficient justification for the blanket ban, which was imposed following the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
The ICRC welcomed the decision, saying it was “ready to resume our visits to detainees in Israeli places of detention”.
“We are continuing our dialogue with the Israeli authorities to resume our work in detention as soon as possible,” it said in a statement on Wednesday evening.
The ICRC stressed that access to detainees -- including the ability to meet with them privately -- constitutes an obligation under international law.
Israel had suspended ICRC visits to security-related detainees in the wake of the 2023 attack, accusing the organisation of failing to secure access to hostages held in Gaza by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups.
The ban remained in place even after the last hostages were returned in October 2025.
Since then, several human rights organisations, including Israeli ones, have denounced a deterioration in conditions for Palestinian detainees held by Israel, citing cases of mistreatment, denial of medical care and violence.
The Prisoners Club, the main association for prisoners´ rights in the Palestinian territories, said the court´s ruling would remain ineffective if the visits were not resumed.
“The ruling should not serve as a cover for overlooking the role played by the Israeli judicial system, including the Supreme Court, in providing legal legitimacy for occupation policies and serious violations, as well as contributing to a system of impunity,” Abdullah al-Zaghari, head of the Palestinian Authority-affiliated Prisoners Club said in a statement on Thursday.
