In the ongoing conflict over Gaza, an Israeli airstrike near a bakery in Deir Al-Balah on Sunday claimed two lives — among them a three-year-old boy named Tayyem Hamdan — adding to a pattern of strikes that across just days has taken at least six Palestinian lives in multiple locations. Israel asserted the strike targeted a Hamas fighter responsible for attacks on its forces, while Gaza health officials documented the human cost without the means to adjudicate the competing claims. The incident sits within a larger, unresolved tension between military justification and civilian consequence — a
Israeli airstrike kills 2 in Gaza, including 3-year-old child
Two Palestinians killed including a 3-year-old boy; several others wounded in the airstrike near Deir Al-Balah.