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Israeli airstrike kills mother 4 children in Gaza


(MENAFN- Arab News) GAZA CITY: An Israeli airstrike killed a mother and four children from the same family in northern Gaza on Sunday medics said.

The strike hit a home near Jabalia in the north of the Palestinian territory emergency spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said as Sunday's death toll in Gaza reached at least 14.

Earlier strikes in the day killed a one-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy Qudra said. Several other air strikes brought Sunday's death toll to at least 14 people including six children.

The conflict which erupted on July 8 when Israel launched its operation against the besieged coastal territory has claimed more than 2100 Palestinian lives and those of 68 Israelis four of them civilians.

Israel also killed a top Hamas financial official in an air strike on Gaza City.

Mohammed Al-Ghul was an important Hamas actor Israeli army spokesman Major Arye Shalicar claimed. The airstrike targeted a car in Gaza City killing Ghul the army said.

Palestinian medics in Gaza confirmed his death.

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