Israel airstrikes kill 2 in Gaza, including 4-year-old boy, amid ceasefire
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Smoke and a fire ball rise during an Israeli strike, carried out after the military warned Palestinian residents to evacuate the area of al-Zawayda, in the central Gaza Strip, on August 23, 2026. Photograph: (AFP)
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed at least two people, including a 4-year-old boy, and wounded seven others amid an ongoing US-backed ceasefire.
Israel on Sunday carried out two airstrikes in Gaza, killing at least two people, including a 4-year-old boy and wounding seven others, Palestinian health officials said. The strike hit a building in Zawayda town in the central section of Gaza City.
The 4-year-old boy has been identified as Mohammad Abdel-Salam Taha. According to medics, flying shrapnel and debris from the explosion spread across dozens of metres, wounding him along with six others and later pronounced dead at the hospital.
The strike occurred despite an ongoing, US-backed ceasefire that originally took effect in October 2025. The IDF has not commented on the strike. "There is no ceasefire, there is nothing," said Abu Ahmed, a displaced Palestinian who was sheltering close to the building, which the airstrike reduced to a pile of mangled steel and concrete.
"We want solutions, we want to live in peace," he said.
A separate strike targeted the nearby Nuseirat refugee camp area and the adjacent Maghazi camp. Palestinian health officials confirmed casualties from this second location, where at least one other individual was killed.
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