Israeli strike on funeral kills eight, wounds 22 in Gaza

Israeli strike on funeral kills eight, wounds 22 in Gaza Gaza's civil defence agency and a hospital said eight people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a gathering of civilians in the Al-Balata market area of Nuseirat refugee camp. The area's Al-Awda hospital said it received eight dead and 22 people wounded in the strike. Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for the civil defence agency, told AFP the strike occurred during a funeral procession. The civil defence agency and hospitals reported that five other people were killed in separate Israeli strikes on Friday. They included two women and the man whose funeral was taking place when the market strike occurred. Before Friday's casualties, at least 1,127 Palestinians had been killed since the truce took effect last October, according to Gaza's health ministry. A young Palestinian boy lies injured at Al-Awda Hospital following an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza on 17 July 2026.