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Eleven people, from the same family, were killed after their bus was hit by an Israeli tank shell in northern Gaza, Hamas-run civil defence said on Saturday.

AFP quoted civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal as saying that the victims were members of the Abu Shaaban family and were killed while “trying to check on their home" in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City on Friday night. Those killed included women and children.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military said a “suspicious vehicle was identified crossing the yellow line and approaching IDF troops operating in the northern Gaza Strip" on Friday, prompting it to fire “warning shots" towards the vehicle.

It said the vehicle “continued to approach the troops in a way that caused an imminent threat to them" and “tro

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