Original sentence: According to the BBC, citing Gazan sources, at least five Hamas militants and some civilians were killed in Israeli strikes by 9 April.Israel said that civilians might have been killed in one strike, saying, "Hamas chooses to operate from within civilian populations and uses them as human shields"
Edited sentence: Among the civilians reported killed in Gaza were a mother and her 21-year-old daughter.Fourteen Gazan residents were killed and an additional 45 were wounded in the more than 20 strikes Israel had completed by the following day.Many of those killed were civilians, one was a policeman, and at least five were Hamas militants.The Israeli army admitted that civilians had been harmed in the strikes, saying, "Hamas chooses to operate from within civilian populations and uses them as human shields"