{"id":22200,"date":"2026-01-09T07:41:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/israeli-strikes-kill-11-in-gaza-after-failed-rocket-launch\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:15","slug":"israeli-strikes-kill-11-in-gaza-after-failed-rocket-launch","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/israeli-strikes-kill-11-in-gaza-after-failed-rocket-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strikes kill 11 in Gaza after failed rocket launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Israeli strikes killed at least 11 Palestinians in separate strikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, medics said, in what the military said came in response to a failed rocket attack by militants in the enclave.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Medics said an Israeli airstrike killed at least four people and wounded three others, including children, in a tent in the western area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Another strike killed a person east of the city, near where Israeli forces operate.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Later on Thursday, medics said a man was killed in an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced families in Jabalia\u00a0in northern Gaza, while another strike killed a person in a tent near Deir al-Balah\u00a0in the central Gaza Strip.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Four other people were killed in a separate strike in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City.<\/div>\n<div>The Israeli military said it struck several Hamas militants, rocket launch pits and what it described as &#8220;terror infrastructure,&#8221; after a rocket was launched from the area of Gaza City toward Israel.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The military said the rocket fell short and landed by a hospital in Gaza and accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13479,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-22200","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Israeli strikes killed at least 11 Palestinians","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25579,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22200\/revisions\/25579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}