Three dead in Israeli strike on municipal building in central Gaza city

(13 Apr 2025)
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Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip - 13 April 2025
1. Entrance to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, UPSOUND warplane flying over
2. Various of smoke cloud after Israeli airstrike
3. Various of men looking through rubble
4. Various of men checking bag with remains
5. Various of crater
6. Various of rubble and destruction
7. Various of men looking through rubble
STORYLINE:
An Israeli airstrike hit a building for the municipality in Gaza’s central city of Deir al-Balah on Sunday, killing at least three people, according to the hospital which received the casualties.

Footage showed men looking through the rubble in the aftermath of the strike.

The intensified Israeli strikes across Gaza on Sunday happened hours after Israel’s defense minister said that military activity would rapidly expand and that people would have to evacuate from “fighting zones.”

Israel also announced Saturday the completion of the Morag corridor, cutting off the southern city of Rafah from the rest of Gaza, with the military saying it would soon expand “vigorously” in most of the small coastal territory.

More than 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza have so far been killed in Israel’s retaliatory offensive, according to the health ministry there, which does not differentiate between combatants and civilians in its count but says more than half of the dead are women and children.

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