Israeli Strike Kills Three in Gaza City’s Sabra Neighbourhood, Including Gaza Sports Club Goalkeeper

The update

An Israeli airstrike on Tuesday hit a metal foundry in the Sabra neighbourhood of southern Gaza City, killing three people and setting nearby tents sheltering displaced families ablaze. Residents inspected the wreckage on Wednesday. Among those killed was Mahmoud Kamal Fares Abdel-Malek, 20, captain and goalkeeper of Gaza Sports Club, the Palestinian Football Association said. Displaced father of two Hisham Abdou, 32, said his family lost everything: “All the clothes are completely gone.” Israel’s military did not comment on the Sabra strike.

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Why it matters

Abdel-Malek played five days earlier in the final of the Thousand Martyrs Cup, a tournament honouring athletes killed in the war. The Football Association says 1,017 people involved in Palestinian sport have been killed. The strike came despite a US-brokered ceasefire agreed last year. Health officials in Gaza say at least 1,600 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since that ceasefire, and Gaza’s health ministry puts the overall toll since October 2023 at 74,645 people killed.

What to watch

Whether Israel’s military comments on the Sabra strike, and whether the ceasefire holds while negotiators remain deadlocked over disarmament and an Israeli troop withdrawal. Reconstruction has made little progress, leaving displaced families in tents as winter approaches.

Sources

• aljazeera.com — confirms the strike hit a Sabra metal foundry, killed three people including goalkeeper Mahmoud Abdel-Malek, and left families without shelter
• srnnews.com — Reuters report confirming the Tuesday strike killed three, destroyed the foundry and set displaced families’ tents ablaze

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