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Israeli Air Strike Kills Reem Asaad Awad in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal Neighborhood

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Israeli airstrike on a Gaza City apartment in Al-Rimal kills Reem Asaad Awad, 33. Five Palestinians die in the strike, including Christian mother Maisa Abu Dawoud and daughter Mary.

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Israeli Air Strike Kills Reem Asaad Awad in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal Neighborhood
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Strike in Al-Rimal

An Israeli air strike on an apartment block in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighbourhood killed Reem Asaad Awad, 33, and wounded two other people, hospital officials said. Anadolu reported that the strike caused extensive destruction to the targeted apartment and nearby buildings, and it said a large fire broke out after the attack and was later extinguished by civil defense crews. Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili said the strike happened at 4am (01:00 GMT), and the Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported that a source at Al Shifa hospital identified the dead woman as Awad.

Israel said it was investigating the strike and claimed it targeted a member of Hamas, without providing evidence, while the agreement Israel referenced was part of a wider United States-backed proposal to end Israel’s “genocidal war” against Palestinians in Gaza. Israel has killed 1,501 Palestinians in Gaza since it agreed a “ceasefire” with Hamas last October, and talks aimed at advancing to the second phase of the US plan have stalled.

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Ceasefire, more violence

Anadolu said the airstrike came “despite ceasefire,” and it described additional incidents in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood where witnesses said Israeli military vehicles and quadcopter drones opened heavy fire toward Palestinian homes. Anadolu said explosive devices were dropped on Al-Sikka Street, and it reported that Israeli artillery shelling hit areas northeast of the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip while an Israeli drone dropped an explosive device on a tent. Daily Sabah said Israeli violations of the October 2025 ceasefire have killed at least 1,498 Palestinians and injured 5,306 others, citing Gaza’s Health Ministry, while it also said the Israeli genocide killed over 74,000 Palestinians and injured 175,000 in Gaza since October 2023.

Daily Sabah also said Israeli occupiers set fire to a prayer room and a car and scrawled racist slogans in the town of Mukhmas, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, and it quoted Mohammed Kanaan as saying the attack happened at around 2 a.m. local time. The agreement states that 600 trucks of humanitarian aid are to be allowed into Gaza each day, but Israeli authorities have continued to impose severe restrictions on supplies entering the enclave, and reconstruction has not begun.

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IDF claims and stakes

Palestinian media outlets affiliated with Hamas in Gaza reported that the IDF struck an apartment in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood early this morning, killing a 33-year-old woman and wounding several others. The IDF carried out a strike targeting a terrorist in Gaza City this morning, but the IDF provides no further details. Israel has killed 1,501 Palestinians in Gaza since it agreed a “ceasefire” with Hamas last October, and the truce was part of a wider United States-backed proposal to end Israel’s “genocidal war” against Palestinians in Gaza.

Anadolu said Israel has continued demolishing residential buildings as ceasefire violations continue, and it described a large-scale demolition operation blowing up homes within areas where its forces are deployed east of Gaza City. The second phase of the US plan includes the withdrawal of Israeli forces and the disarmament of Hamas, and talks aimed at advancing to that phase have stalled.

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