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Woman killed in Israeli pre-dawn air strike on Gaza amid reports of imminent ceasefire

One woman was killed in an Israeli air strike on Khan Younes in the southern Gaza Strip in the early hours of Thursday, according to several Palestinian media outlets.

The woman, identified as 32-year-old Huda Salah al-Khazendar, was reportedly killed in an air strike on a residential building in Khan Younes. 

A number of Palestinian and Arabic news outlets broadcast footage from Khan Younes showing casualties, including children arriving at a hospital in the southern Gaza neighbourhood. 

Translation: "Huda Salah Rabie al-Khazendar (32 years old) has been killed and five Palestinians wounded as a result of the occupation's aerial bombing of al-Khawalda family home in Al-Satr al-Gharbi in Khan Younes, southern Gaza."