Israel launches deadly strikes in south, central Gaza

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******* launches deadly strikes in south, central Gaza

******** air strikes have hit central and southern Gaza, ******** at least 14 people as friends and family members of a Turkish-********* activist ******* by an ******** soldier prepare to honour her at a ********.

The air strikes 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 *******-****** war, Gaza’s Civil Defence said on Saturday.

They followed air strikes that hit a tent camp on Tuesday and a ******* Nations school sheltering displaced on Wednesday.

A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio drew down and the World Health Organisation (WHO) said about 559,000 younger than 10 have recovered from their first dose – seven out of every eight children the campaign aimed to vaccinate.

The second doses are expected to begin later in September as part of an effort the WHO said parties had already agreed to.

“As we prepare for the next round in four weeks, we’re hopeful these pauses will hold because this campaign has clearly shown the world what’s possible when peace is given a chance,” Richard Peeperkorn, WHO’s representative in Gaza and the West Bank, said in a statement on Saturday.

Meanwhile, the body of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the Turkish-********* activist ******* on September 6 by an ******** soldier, was returned to her hometown late on Friday accompanied by a police honour guard, the official Turkish news agency reported.

Draped in a Turkish flag, the coffin was carried from a hearse to a hospital in Didim by six officers in a ceremonial uniform.

Her ******** is due to be held in the coastal town in western Turkey later on Saturday.

The 26-year-old activist from Seattle, who held US and Turkish citizenship, was ******* after a demonstration against ******** settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to an ******** protester who witnessed the *********.

The ******** military said on Tuesday that Eygi was likely shot “indirectly and unintentionally” by ******** forces.

Turkey announced it would investigate her ******.

Anadolu Agency reported her body arrived in Didim after an autopsy at the Izmir Forensic Medicine Institute.

Eygi’s ****** was condemned by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken as the US, Egypt and Qatar pushed for a cease-***** and the release of the remaining hostages held by ******.

Talks have repeatedly bogged down as ******* and ****** accuse each other of making new and unacceptable demands.

The war began when ******-led fighters ******* some 1200 people, mostly civilians, in an October 7 ******* on southern *******.

They abducted another 250 people and are still holding about 100 hostages after releasing most of the rest in exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by ******* during a week-long cease-***** in November.

About a third of the remaining hostages are believed to be *****.

The war has caused vast destruction and displaced about 90 per cent of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million, often multiple times, and plunged the territory into a severe humanitarian crisis.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 41,000 Palestinians have been ******* since the war began.

The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and militants in its count but says women and children make up more than half of the *****.

******* says it has ******* more than 17,000 militants in the war.

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