Israeli air attack on Gaza City apartment kills at least five

No warning given before Israeli deadly strike hit Rimal area, one of Gaza City’s most densely populated neighborhoods.

Palestinians search through the rubble of an apartment building in Gaza City's Remal neighbourhood after a deadly Israeli air attack on October 3, 2026, in a screengrab from Al Jazeera footage [Al Jazeera]

An Israeli air attack on a residential apartment in western Gaza City has killed at least five people and severely wounded at least six others, according to medical staff at al-Shifa Hospital.

The strike hit the al-Asala building in the Remal neighbourhood early on Saturday without prior warning, according to Al Jazeera’s Hani al-Shaer, reporting from Khan Younis.

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Remal is one of Gaza City’s most crowded residential areas, home to thousands of displaced people sheltering in makeshift camps across the neighbourhood.

Al-Shaer said the attack came in the middle of the night, when residents were asleep.

“We heard fighter jets getting louder, then three strikes followed, hitting the apartment and killing those inside,” he said.

The strike penetrated the targeted apartment and tore through the floors below, causing further destruction throughout the multi-storey building.

Fires burned for at least an hour before Palestinian Civil Defence crews managed to put them out.

Al-Shaer described the scene as “horrific”, with people buried under the rubble as they slept.

Civil defence crews were still searching the site for missing people and bodies, he said, as Israeli drones continued flying over the area and fighter jets were heard flying low across the Strip.

Al-Shifa Hospital said the dead included four women, among them an elderly Christian woman and her daughter.

The six wounded were taken to al-Shifa Hospital for treatment.

以色列对加沙城人口最稠密的街区之一里马尔地区发动致命空袭，事先没有任何警告。

2026年10月3日，以色列空袭加沙城雷马尔区，巴勒斯坦人在公寓楼废墟中搜寻幸存者。（半岛电视台视频截图）

据希法医院医务人员称，以色列空袭加沙城西部一处居民公寓，造成至少五人死亡，至少六人重伤。

据半岛电视台记者哈尼·沙尔从汗尤尼斯报道，周六清晨，一枚炸弹毫无预警地袭击了雷马尔社区的阿萨拉大楼。

以色列在加沙发动的三起袭击事件中，第一起造成至少八人死亡

巴勒斯坦人埋葬在以色列袭击加沙事件中丧生的105人的遗体（共3条记录，此为第2条）

图3（共3张）：巴勒斯坦人在加沙举行大规模葬礼，悼念100多位亲人

雷马尔是加沙城人口最密集的居民区之一，成千上万的流离失所者栖身于该社区各处的临时营地中。

沙尔表示，袭击发生在半夜，当时居民们都在睡觉。

“我们听到战斗机的声音越来越大，然后发生了三次空袭，击中了公寓，里面的人全部遇难，”他说。

炸弹穿透了目标公寓，炸穿了下面的楼层，对整栋多层建筑造成了进一步的破坏。

巴勒斯坦民防人员将大火扑灭前，大火燃烧了至少一个小时。

阿尔-沙尔形容现场“惨不忍睹”，人们在睡梦中被埋在废墟下。

他说，民防人员仍在现场搜寻失踪人员和尸体，以色列无人机继续在该地区上空飞行，战斗机低空飞越加利西亚地带的声音也清晰可闻。

希法医院表示，死者中有四名女性，其中包括一名年长的基督徒妇女和她的女儿。

六名伤者被送往希法医院接受治疗。