{"id":132317,"date":"2026-09-01T08:43:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=132317"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:43:33","slug":"israeli-strikes-kill-5-people-in-gaza-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/132317\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strikes kill 5 people in Gaza City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JERUSALEM(National Times)-Israeli airstrikes killed five people around Gaza City on Monday, a local hospital and rescuers said, with the Israeli army saying it had targeted Hamas \u201cmilitary operatives\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said on Monday morning that it had received two bodies \u201cfollowing an Israeli airstrike that targeted the entrance of a residential building near the municipal park in Gaza City\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later in the day, the hospital said it received three additional bodies and several wounded \u201cas a result of an Israeli drone strike that targeted a civilian car in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, southwest of Gaza City\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The civil defence, which operates as a rescue service under Hamas authority, confirmed the toll of the two strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Images shared by the civil defence showed workers inspecting the car targeted in the second strike, completely destroyed and reduced to a blackened shell of warped metal, as a crowd of bystanders gathered around it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When contacted, the Israeli military said that in both strikes it had \u201cattacked operatives from Hamas\u2019s military wing\u201d, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam brigades. It later identified one of the dead as Omar Mohammed Roshdy Saraj and said he supplied weapons to Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe terrorists were struck in order to remove the threat they posed,\u201d a military statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite a US-backed&nbsp;ceasefire&nbsp;that took effect in October 2025, violence has not halted in the Gaza Strip, with Israel continuing to target Palestinians it says are militants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Al Shifa Hospital, relatives and friends paid their last respects to two of the five men killed on Monday before carrying the white-shrouded bodies to the cemetery to bury them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is no ceasefire. There is not one good day in Gaza since October 7 (2023),\u201d said Amjad Abu Abdo, a relative of one of the people who died in the first strike on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM(National Times)-Israeli airstrikes killed five people around Gaza City on Monday, a local hospital and rescuers said, with the Israeli army saying it had targeted Hamas \u201cmilitary operatives\u201d. 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