{"id":43562,"date":"2026-08-23T18:46:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43562"},"modified":"2026-08-23T18:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:46:01","slug":"israeli-airstrikes-in-gaza-kill-two-people-including-a-4-year-old-boy-medics","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/israeli-airstrikes-in-gaza-kill-two-people-including-a-4-year-old-boy-medics\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill two people, including a 4-year-old boy: Medics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Israeli airstrikes in \u200bthe Gaza Strip this Sunday killed at least two people, including a 4-year-old boy, and wounded seven \u200cothers, Palestinian health officials said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the strikes hit a building in Zawayda town in the centre of the enclave and followed a warning by the Israeli army for the owners of the property to leave the area, residents said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics said flying debris and shrapnel that spread for \u200bdozens of metres around had wounded at least six people, including the 4-year-old, Mohammad Abdel-Salam Taha, who was later \u200bpronounced dead at hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no ceasefire, there is nothing,&#8221; said Abu Ahmed, a displaced Palestinian \u2060who was sheltering close to the building, which the airstrike reduced to a pile of mangled steel and concrete.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want \u200bsolutions, we want to live in peace,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The second airstrike took place in the nearby Nuseirat refugee camp, the health \u200bofficials said.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s military said it was looking into both strikes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":42443,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-43562","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Israel's military said it was looking into both strikes.","published_date":"","news_description":"Israel's military said it was looking into both strikes.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43562","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\/43562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43563,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43562\/revisions\/43563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}