Israeli air strikes killed at least three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip yesterday, health officials said.
One strike near Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza killed Basir Al Bursh, the son of Munir Al Bursh, the territory’s health ministry director-general, medics and family members said.
The Israeli military said it had struck several fighters, including Basir Al Bursh, without giving further information. Hamas did not immediately comment.
Munir Al Bursh lost a daughter in an Israeli air strike in December 2023, according to family members and medics. He was wounded in that attack.
In video obtained by Reuters, Al Bursh was seen carrying his son’s body, wrapped in a blanket, with other mourners as it was rushed to hospital by ambulance.
“I was with him in the tent, and he said, ‘Dad, they will target us, you and me together, I said that is fine, we will go to heaven together’,” said Al Bursh in the video.
“He went outside the tent and they struck him and he was martyred, may God have mercy on him,” added Al Bursh.
At Al Shifa Hospital, Al Bursh could barely stand as mourners arrived to pay their respects.
Elsewhere, a strike killed a man in Shejaia, east of Gaza City, while another hit a vehicle in the Sheikh Radwan district of Gaza City, killing one person, the civil defence service and medics said, taking the death toll to at least three.
The Israeli military said the Sheikh Radwan strike targeted a Hamas member.
The blast reduced the vehicle to a mangled wreck.
Palestinian authorities say more than 73,000 people have been killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza, launched after Hamas-led fighters killed about 1,200 people in southern Israel in October 2023.
A US-brokered ceasefire agreed last year calls for the eventual reconstruction of the territory, but little progress has been made as negotiators have failed to agree terms for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw its troops.
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