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Israeli flares light up the night sky over Gaza

Overnight, Israeli forces launched illumination flares in the skies over the Gaza Strip.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said the flares often precede large-scale attacks and as the enclave was lit up, Israeli quadcopters began firing in the area of Gaza City from which he was reporting.


Illumination flares launched by the Israeli army over Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip

Israeli forces kill two Palestinians, including baby, in Gaza City

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have killed two Palestinians, including a baby, as they were sheltering in tents in central Gaza City.

Another Israeli attack on a home in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City injured four people, according to ambulance workers.

In the south of the Gaza Strip, an Israeli air attack targeted a building in the centre of Khan Younis.

Israeli troops kill child in central Gaza

Israeli forces have opened fired in the Bureij camp in central Gaza, killing a Palestinian child, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report, quoting a source at al-Awda Hospital.

Israeli forces bomb Harmony Tower apartment building in Gaza City


The Harmony Tower in western Gaza City, Gaza, on Wednesday


Gaza City’s Holy Family Church still sheltering 450 people, despite Israeli orders to flee

The parish priest of Gaza City’s Holy Family Church has said 450 people are still sheltering at the Catholic sanctuary, including the elderly, sick and children.

Father Gabriel Romanelli said “most of the population does not want to leave”, despite orders by the Israeli military to leave the city and move south. “Everywhere there is danger, but many want to remain in the city. We try to accompany them and help as we can,” Romanelli told Vatican News on Wednesday.

Romanelli, who said the church recently received a call from Pope Leo XIV, said he and his church “continue to pray for peace, for the whole of Gaza, for the Middle East, and for the world”.