Israeli Airstrikes in Gaza Result in at Least 12 Deaths

Xinhua News Agency, Gaza, July 21 (Reporter Zhao Weihong, Huang Zemin) According to a report from the Palestinian News Agency on the 21st, the Israeli army launched airstrikes on multiple locations in the Gaza Strip that day, resulting in at least 12 Palestinian deaths and several injuries.

The report stated that the Israeli military conducted an airstrike on an apartment building in the center of Gaza City, resulting in 4 deaths and multiple injuries; an airstrike on a car in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza resulted in 2 deaths and 4 injuries.

The Palestinian Civil Defense Department in Gaza announced on the 21st that its personnel discovered 6 bodies in the ruins of a house that had been struck by an airstrike in Gaza City that morning, which included a couple and their 4 children. Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli military drones fired 3 missiles at the house.

The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) issued a statement condemning the Israeli airstrike that killed a family of six as a "blatant war crime," accusing Israel of ignoring the ceasefire agreement and continuing to perpetrate "genocide" against innocent civilians. Hamas called on Arab and Islamic countries to take action to stop the massacre in the Gaza Strip and urged the international community to hold war criminals accountable.

The Israeli military has not yet responded to this.

According to data released by the health department in the Gaza Strip on the 21st, since the first phase of the ceasefire agreement took effect on October 2025, Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip have resulted in 1,168 deaths and 3,798 injuries.