Israeli strike kills five, including four women in

An Israeli airstrike killed at least five Palestinians, including four women, in an apartment building in Gaza City early on Saturday, health and civil defense service officials said.

Among the dead were a Christian mother and her daughter, medics said.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. The strike destroyed the apartment building and started a fire.

“We were asleep and suddenly heard continuous , and heavy , the children woke up and started running and screaming,” said eyewitness Ahmed Al-Dahdouh.

“We ran out and found that our neighbour’s house was struck and there were dismembered martyrs, women, men and children, we started to pull them out.

they were scattered under the rubble,” he told Reuters.
Last year’s US-brokered Gaza ceasefire calls for eventual reconstruction of the . But little progress been made towards implementing a deal to end conflict that includes terms for Hamas to disarm Israel to withdraw its troops.

“We are Muslims and these are our Christian brethren, who are not involved in anything, they are peaceful people, and everybody loves them, and now we pulled out their bodies, a mother and her daughter,” said Dahdouh.