Key facts
- Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza City on Saturday.
- Hospitals received over 60 bodies, with the death toll expected to rise.
- The Israeli military stated it struck Hamas fighters and disputed casualty figures.
- Strikes in southern Lebanon killed at least five people.
- An Israeli airstrike in Gaza City killed four Palestinians, including two women and a child.
Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza City on Saturday, with hospitals overwhelmed and reporting over 60 bodies received. The Israeli military stated it struck Hamas fighters and disputed the reported casualty figures. Specific incidents included an airstrike on an apartment building in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City that killed four Palestinians, including two women and a child, and destroyed the building. In another incident, Israeli forces shot and killed a woman in Beit Lahiya town. Earlier in the week, simultaneous airstrikes targeted residential apartments across Gaza City, killing eleven Palestinians, including five from the same family, and wounding dozens. An Israeli drone strike in the Al-Daraj neighborhood killed one Palestinian and wounded three others. Hospitals, including Al-Shifa, received bodies that were dismembered or severely burned. More than 80 Palestinians were killed across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, with at least 20 dying when a strike hit a building and tents sheltering displaced families near Firas market. The Israeli military confirmed striking two Hamas terrorists but disputed casualty numbers. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that Israeli military vehicles damaged the oxygen station outside al-Quds hospital. Separately, US special envoy Steve Witkoff mentioned that President Donald Trump had presented a "21-point plan for peace in the Mideast and Gaza" to Arab and Muslim leaders. Talks held by mediators Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and Mladenov over the implementation of the second phase of Trump's Gaza plan have not yet reached an agreement. Hamas is studying a revised version of the plan.