Israeli strikes on residential buildings kill eight overnight in Gaza

Gaza civil defence officials said Sunday that eight people were killed in strikes that hit multiple residential buildings around midnight. In one attack near the central Gaza Strip, a man and his wife were killed and several others were wounded when an Israeli military helicopter struck an apartment, a civil defence spokesman said. Gaza authorities earlier said that seven people were killed in Israeli strikes on Saturday that also damaged a hospital's medical supplies, a day after Hamas said it agreed to the latest stage of a deal to end the war. The Israeli military, for its part, said it had struck Hamas weapons depots. The latest strikes come after Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to the latest phase in a deal championed by US President Donald Trump that includes provisions for handing over its weapons and the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip. Israel has yet to officially comment on the agreement, but a political source has told AFP "that there will be no withdrawal whatsoever" without Hamas's "genuine disarmament". Mahmoud Basal, a spokesman for Gaza's civil defence agency, told AFP that seven people were killed and several others injured across the Ga...