The airstrike struck the Nassr neighborhood, bringing Monday’s death toll to at least seven.
Footage from the scene showed emergency teams transporting casualties in ambulances, while residents carried a body to the morgue at al-Shifa Hospital
At least four Palestinians have been killed and several others injured after Israeli forces bombed a residential building sheltering displaced people in Gaza City, marking another breach of the October ceasefire.
The airstrike struck the Nassr neighborhood, bringing Monday’s death toll to at least seven.
Footage from the scene showed emergency teams transporting casualties in ambulances, while residents carried a body to the morgue at al-Shifa Hospital.
Journalists, reporting from Gaza City, said the building had been damaged in Israel’s ongoing offensive and was serving as a shelter for displaced Palestinians.
“People have been forced to take refuge in this partially damaged residential building due to the scarcity of housing after the destruction of most of Gaza’s residential areas,” he said.
“This attack has caused widespread panic, leaving residents fearful of what might come next amid this deadly escalation by the Israeli military,” he added.
According to Gaza authorities, Israel has violated the U.S.-brokered ceasefire 1,520 times since it took effect on October 10, with at least 581 people killed and 1,553 wounded during that period.
A witness at the scene told Reuters that the targeted apartment housed children and questioned the prospects for peace, expressing anger toward Israel and the U.S.
“What peace is this?” he said. “May God punish you, America and Israel.”
Earlier on Monday, Israeli forces killed a 54-year-old man in the northern town of Beit Lahiya and shot dead a Palestinian fisherman off the coast of Khan Younis in the south.
They also killed a Palestinian farmer near the central city of Deir el-Balah. The Palestinian Wafa news agency identified the victim as Khaled Baraka.
In a separate incident, Israel’s military reported killing four fighters who emerged from a tunnel in southern Gaza and allegedly attacked its troops. Hamas military spokesman Abu Obeida described the incident as “heroic resistance.”
Hamas said in late November that dozens of its fighters remained in tunnels in southern Gaza beneath areas controlled by the Israeli military.
Early in the ceasefire, Israel insisted the fighters posed a security threat, while Hamas sought safe passage for them. Since then, many fighters have been killed in clashes with Israeli forces during operations targeting tunnels near Rafah, according to the Israeli military.
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