{"id":1022528,"date":"2026-08-25T05:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T05:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1022528\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T05:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T05:38:17","slug":"two-children-among-four-people-killed-in-gaza-strikes-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1022528\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Children Among Four People Killed in Gaza Strikes, Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Palestinian residents of war-battered Gaza fled homes and businesses as Israeli strikes and tank fire killed at least four people Monday, including two children, hospital officials said, a week after a U.S. delegation asked Israel to draw down attacks.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">After evacuation warnings by Israel&#8217;s military, a strike hit a building in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. One family was unable to flee and a 4-year-old child was killed, according to Awda Hospital, where he was taken. His mother and sister were wounded. There was no Israeli military comment.<\/p>\n<p><img data-chromatic=\"ignore\" title=\"Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a water desalination plant, carried out after the Israeli military warned residents to evacuate the area, in Gaza City, August 24, 2026. Credit: REUTERS\/Dawoud Abu Alkas\" alt=\"Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a water desalination plant, carried out after the Israeli military warned residents to evacuate the area, in Gaza City, August 24, 2026.\" width=\"3932\" height=\"2569\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-24t185820z-1712516982-rc225na5pzuv-rtrmadp-3-israel-palestinians-gaza.JPG\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1mraiob xxymvpz xt7dq6l x193iq5w xh8yej3 x1huxd7x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><img data-chromatic=\"ignore\" title=\"Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a water desalination plant, carried out after the Israeli military warned residents to evacuate the area, in Gaza City, August 24, 2026. Credit: REUTERS\/Dawoud Abu Alkas\" alt=\"Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a water desalination plant, carried out after the Israeli military warned residents to evacuate the area, in Gaza City, August 24, 2026.\" width=\"3932\" height=\"2569\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2026-08-24t185820z-1712516982-rc225na5pzuv-rtrmadp-3-israel-palestinians-gaza.JPG\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1mraiob xxymvpz xt7dq6l x193iq5w xh8yej3\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Close<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a water desalination plant, carried out after the Israeli military warned residents to evacuate the area, in Gaza City, August 24, 2026. Credit: REUTERS\/Dawoud Abu Alkas<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a water desalination plant, carried out after the Israeli military warned residents to evacuate the area, in Gaza City, August 24, 2026. Credit: REUTERS\/Dawoud Abu Alkas<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Israeli strikes hit three other buildings across the territory after residents said they received evacuation warnings. Some people sprinted away, with mothers carrying children, while others moved amid the rubble in wheelchairs or with canes.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Israel&#8217;s military said it carried out strikes in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City and in Deir al-Balah after issuing warnings, targeting what it described as two Hamas weapons storage facilities inside mosques. The military did not provide evidence but said the facilities contained dozens of &#8220;Kalashnikov rifles, magazines and additional military equipment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">An earlier Israeli strike on a tent in Deir al-Balah killed a man, according to Al-Aqsa Hospital, where his body was taken. Israel&#8217;s military said it killed a militant affiliated with Hamas&#8217; special forces unit.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Others were killed or hurt in Khan Younis in the south. A man was killed and five others were wounded in an Israeli strike in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to Nasser Hospital, which received the casualties. And Israeli tank fire hit an area east of Khan Younis, killing a 10-year-old girl, according to the hospital, where her body was taken.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">Israel&#8217;s military did not immediately comment on the strike in Khan Younis and said it was not aware of the incident with the child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Palestinian residents of war-battered Gaza fled homes and businesses as Israeli strikes and tank fire killed at least&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1022529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[266635,372,69,70,4527,4783,4784,99,119115,30578,50,36737],"class_list":["post-1022528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-2026-israel-iran-war","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-israel-u-s","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-news","tag-october-7"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1022529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}