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Israeli attack on residential block kills at least 15 Palestinians
Palestinians mourn over the bodies of their relatives who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Shijaiyah neighborhood, as they brought to the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City on April 9, 2025

THE IDF’s killing spree continued today as an attack on a residential block in Gaza City killed at least 15 Palestinians.

Gaza’s Health Ministry said at least 40 people were also wounded in the attack on a four-storey building in the city’s Shijaiyah neighbourhood. More than half of the dead were women and children.

Rescue teams were searching for victims under the rubble.

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