Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed five Palestinians on Tuesday, including two children and a Hamas armed commander. The strikes hit areas in northern and southern Gaza, causing additional casualties through suspected double tap tactics near Sheikh Radwan and Mawasi. Medical sources confirmed the deaths while Israeli officials claimed they targeted militant leaders involved with Hamas operations.
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On September 15, Israeli airstrikes killed at least five Palestinians, including two children and a Hamas armed commander, in northern and southern Gaza. In the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of northern Gaza Strip, an airstrike hit a vehicle, killing two people, one of whom was a child, and injuring seven others. Witnesses reported that some casualties occurred from a second strike near those who had rushed to help initial victims. Another attack struck a tent encampment in Mawasi area in Khan Younis, while a separate incident saw an Israeli military drone shooting and killing a patient at a health center supported by Medical Aid for Palestinians in Jabalia, northern Gaza. An investigation revealed that the Israeli army uses "double-tap" strikes to maximize casualties, bombing a location once and then targeting it again when rescuers arrive. This practice was confirmed after an airstrike killed two people, including a 15-year-old boy, in Sheikh Radwan, despite a US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas from the previous October.
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Israeli airstrikes on a vehicle killed at least two Palestinians, one a child, and wounded seven others in what appeared to be a double tap strike in the northern Gaza Strip neighbourhood of Sheikh Radwan, according to medics.
left describes Israeli strikes as causing civilian casualties
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A video, which Reuters did not immediately verify, showed a missile exploding near at least five men.
left implies the strike was indiscriminate and harmful to civilians
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In a separate incident, British health charity Medical Aid for Palestinians said on Tuesday that a patient was killed at a health center it supports in northern Gaza's Jabalia.
left highlights harm to medical facilities and patients
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Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement U.S. President Donald Trump's broader plan to end the Gaza conflict, which includes the Israeli withdrawal from the strip and the disarmament of Hamas.
left attributes blame for ceasefire violations to Israel
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Israeli strikes in Gaza kill five people, medics say
CAIRO/GAZA, Sept 15 - Israeli airstrikes killed at least five Palestinians, including two children and a Hamas armed commander, in northern and southern Gaza on Tuesday, health officials and Hamas sources said.
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Israeli airstrikes on a vehicle killed at least two Palestinians, one a child, and wounded seven others in what appeared to be a double tap strike in the northern Gaza Strip neighbourhood of Sheikh Radwan, according to medics.
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The Israeli military said it had struck a militant in the area, without elaborating.
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Witnesses said some of the casualties resulted from a second strike near a group of people who had rushed to aid the initial victims.
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A video, which Reuters did not immediately verify, showed a missile exploding near at least five men.
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In a separate incident, British health charity Medical Aid for Palestinians said on Tuesday that a patient was killed at a health center it supports in northern Gaza's Jabalia.
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it → say → Jabalia
The organization said the patient was shot by an Israeli military quadcopter drone.
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A separate Israeli airstrike at a tent encampment in the Mawasi area in Khan Younis killed two people, a man and an 8-year-old girl, and wounded 14 people, according to medical staff.
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The Israeli military said it struck a Hamas commander in the Rafah Brigade on Tuesday, according to a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz.
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Hamas sources said a senior commander of the group, Nael Abu Obeid, was killed in the strike.
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Palestinians earlier held funerals in Gaza for two people who were killed by Israeli strikes a day ago, Ahmed Al-Batsh and
Rafat Zummar.
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Batsh was a local Hamas commander, according to Hamas sources and the Israeli military.
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Medics said Batsh died in an attack on his vehicle in the northern Gaza Strip.
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The Israeli military said in separate statements that it had killed both men, and it described Zummar also as a Hamas commander.
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Hamas didn't immediately comment on Zummar's affiliation.
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Relatives and friends honored Batsh's body draped in a white shroud and a Hamas green flag at Gaza City's Al Shifa Hospital.
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An M16 assault rifle was placed on top of the body.
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"Israel thinks... it will eliminate the resistance and the spirit of jihad (devotion) within us," said Khalil Al-Batsh, a relative of the dead Hamas militant.
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"I tell them that this cowardly operation only strengthens our people's determination to continue on this path,” he told Reuters at the funeral.
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An October 2025, U.S.-backed, ceasefire halted large-scale fighting in Gaza, but it has not ended Israeli strikes and there has been little progress on steps towards permanent peace.
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Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement U.S. President Donald Trump's broader plan to end the Gaza conflict, which includes the Israeli withdrawal from the strip and the disarmament of Hamas.
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Israel says Hamas has been violating the deal.
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More than 1,300 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect, according to the territory's health officials, while the Israeli military says four Israeli soldiers have been killed.
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Hamas does not usually disclose information about fatalities among its fighters.
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