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Gaza’s civil defence agency said on Saturday that Israel had carried out dozens of air strikes and artillery shelling on Gaza City despite Trump’s appeal, William Christou writes.
“It was a very violent night, during which the [Israeli army] carried out dozens of air strikes and artillery shelling on Gaza City and other areas in the Strip, despite President Trump’s call to halt the bombing,” civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP. He said 20 homes were destroyed in the attacks.
Gaza City’s Baptist hospital said it had received casualties from a strike on a home in the city’s Tuffah neighbourhood, including four dead and several wounded while Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said two children were killed and eight people wounded in a drone strike on a tent in a camp for displaced Gazans.
The Guardian’s live coverage of the crisis in the Middle East is coming to a close for today. Here’s a round-up of the latest key events:
