Key facts
- Israeli strikes in Gaza since dawn have killed nine Palestinians, including three children.
- Attacks occurred in Gaza City, Deir el-Balah, and Khan Younis.
- Two medicine warehouses near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah were destroyed.
- Two additional medicine warehouses and the hospital's outpatient clinic were damaged.
- Israel announced the killing of two Hamas commanders.
Israeli forces conducted overnight strikes in Gaza, resulting in the deaths of at least eight Palestinians, including two children. The attacks also led to the destruction of two medicine warehouses belonging to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, with two additional warehouses and the hospital's outpatient clinic also damaged. Earlier reports indicated seven Palestinians had been killed in Gaza over the preceding 48 hours. Specific incidents included the death of a couple, Kamal Abu Mu’eileq and his wife, in an Israeli attack on a home in Deir el-Balah, and the deaths of an elderly man and a child in an apartment strike west of Gaza City. Three individuals, including a child, were killed in a strike northwest of Khan Younis. In parallel, the Israeli military announced it had killed two Hamas commanders. Salem Jamal Abd al-Rahman Abu Labad, described as a cell commander in Hamas’s Nukhba special forces, was killed in southern Gaza on Saturday. Muhammad Abd al-Nasser Muhammad Khatib, a commander in Hamas’s Maghazi Battalion, was killed in a separate air strike in central Gaza on Friday. Since dawn, three children have been among nine Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza City, Deir el-Balah, and Khan Younis, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.