Israel strikes Gaza again after overnight bombardment that killed at least 104

"Israel carried out another strike in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing at least two people, after bombarding the territory overnight and killing at least 104 Palestinians, including children, in the gravest challenge yet to the increasingly fragile US-brokered ceasefire. The Israeli military said it had struck military infrastructure where weapons were being stored for an imminent attack in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City said it had received two bodies from the strike."

"After the Tuesday night bombardment, Israel said that it was now adhering to the ceasefire again and statements from US officials seemed to indicate they did not consider the ceasefire to have been broken. But Wednesday's strike cast doubt on Israel's willingness to comply with the truce, which obligates both parties to stop their attacks. The strikes, some of the bloodiest attacks in the two-year war, killed at least 46 children and 20 women, and injured 200 people, according to Gaza's civil defence agency."

"Funerals were held for the victims of the latest attacks at hospitals across Gaza on Wednesday. Some had been carried into medical facilities in the arms of loved ones. These are massacres, said Haneen Mteir, who lost her sister and nephews and was attending a funeral outside Nasser hospital in southern Gaza. They burned children while they were asleep, she told the Associated Press."

Israeli forces struck Gaza again, killing at least two people after an overnight bombardment that killed at least 104 Palestinians, including children. The military said the strike targeted military infrastructure and weapons storage in Beit Lahia; Al-Shifa hospital reported receiving two bodies. Israel stated it was adhering to the ceasefire, and US officials appeared to view the truce as intact, but the new strike cast doubt on compliance with mutually binding obligations to stop attacks. Gaza civil defence reported at least 46 children and 20 women killed and around 200 injured. Funerals were held across Gaza, and relatives described the attacks as massacres.

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