Israel Strikes Gaza as American Activist Killed by Israeli Fire is Buried
Source: The Voice of America
Israeli airstrikes hit central and southern Gaza overnight into Saturday, killing at least 14 people as friends and family members of a Turkish-American activist killed by an Israeli soldier honored her in a funeral.
The airstrikes in Gaza City hit one home housing 11 people, including three women and four children, and another strike hit a tent in Khan Younis with Palestinians displaced by the Israel-Hamas war, Gaza's Civil Defense said Saturday. They followed airstrikes earlier this week that hit a tent camp on Tuesday and a United Nations school sheltering displaced people on Wednesday.
A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio drew down, and the World Health Organization said about 559,000 people under the age of 10 — seven out of every eight children the campaign aimed to vaccinate — have recovered from their first dose. The second doses are expected to begin later this month as part of an effort in which the WHO said parties had already agreed to.
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Palestinians gather amid the rubble near a fuel tank damaged in Israeli bombing in Gaza City on 14 Sep 2024.
Relatives, officials and others look at the coffin of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi (26), who was shot and killed in the occupied West Bank, during her funeral ceremony at a mosque in Aydin Province, Turkiye, on 14 Sep 2024.