GAZA CITY — At least 45 people were killed Sunday in a wave of Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, Gaza’s civil defence agency and multiple hospitals said, as both Israel and Hamas accused each other of breaching a nine-day-old ceasefire brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Mahmud Bassal, spokesperson for the Hamas-run civil defence, told AFP that strikes hit “various areas of the Gaza Strip,” raising an earlier death toll of 33. Four hospitals confirmed receiving the dead and wounded.
Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat reported 24 fatalities and 73 injured from multiple blasts in central Gaza. Al-Aqsa Hospital said it received 12 bodies from nearby strikes, while Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis confirmed five deaths and Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City reported four.
Bassal detailed several incidents, including:
- Six people killed in a strike on a “group of civilians” in the central town of Zuwaida.
- Two separate strikes near Nuseirat that killed six people, including children, and injured 13.
- A drone strike that killed a woman and two children at a tent for displaced people near Asdaa City, north of Khan Yunis.
- An attack in western Zuwaida that killed two people, including a journalist, and wounded others.
- A strike on a tent in Nuseirat’s Al-Ahli Club area that killed two.
- Two killed in an airstrike in eastern Jabalia, northern Gaza.
- One person killed in a strike on an apartment in western Gaza City.
Several of the wounded later died, Bassal added.
The Israel Defense Forces said it struck “dozens of Hamas targets” across Gaza and told AFP it was checking reports of civilian casualties. Later Sunday, the military said it had resumed enforcing the ceasefire, without elaborating on the scope of operations or alleged violations.
