official statements (Israeli military; Al-Shifa hospital; Gaza civil defence; Gaza health ministry) via AFP, carried by CNA
Gaza: Israeli strike aimed at a Hamas commander kills five in a Gaza City apartment, four of them women, hospital says
An Israeli air strike on a Gaza City apartment before dawn on Saturday killed five people, four of them women, according to the city’s main hospital. Israel said the target was Hamas’s top leader in the Gaza Strip.
Key facts
- Strike (Sat Oct 3, pre-dawn)
- Air strike on an apartment in Gaza City’s Rimal neighbourhood · Israel said it aimed to kill Ali al-Amoudi, Hamas’s top leader in the Gaza Strip · civil defence said two missiles hit the apartment
- Dead (Al-Shifa hospital)
- Five: two women, their daughters and a man · two of the dead were Christians, mourned at the Greek Orthodox church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City
- Not stated
- Whether al-Amoudi was killed
- Since the ceasefire
- More than 1,440 people killed by Israeli forces since the ceasefire was announced a year ago (Gaza health ministry) · the Israeli military reports five deaths in its ranks and one civilian contractor over the same period
Israel said on Saturday (Oct 3) that it attempted to kill Hamas's top leader in the Gaza Strip in an airstrike on an apartment that local officials said killed five people, four of them women.
AFP, via CNA
Note
Israel said it tried to kill Hamas’s top leader in the Gaza Strip, Ali al-Amoudi, in a pre-dawn air strike on an apartment in Gaza City’s Rimal neighbourhood on Saturday, Oct 3, according to AFP. An official at Al-Shifa hospital said it received the bodies of five people and a number of injured: two women and their daughters, and a man. Two of the dead were Christians, the hospital director said, and mourners gathered at the Greek Orthodox church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City for their funeral.
The strike came on the anniversary, by the Jewish calendar, of the Oct 7, 2023 attack. Gaza’s health ministry says Israeli forces have killed more than 1,440 people since the ceasefire was announced a year ago; the Israeli military reports five deaths in its ranks over the same period, plus one civilian contractor. The source does not say whether al-Amoudi was killed.
Why it matters
Strikes like this keep the ceasefire’s death toll climbing, and this one fell on the Jewish-calendar anniversary of the Oct 7 attack.
Sources
Primary + secondary attribution as listed.
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