Updated: At least four Palestinians were confirmed dead on Wednesday, three newly killed and one body recovered, as Israeli occupation forces continued assaults across the Gaza Strip, leaving behind a trail of civilian casualties and deepening the humanitarian crisis.
On Wednesday evening, medical sources in Rafah, in Gaza’s southernmost area, reported that Israeli soldiers fired live rounds at displaced Palestinians near the Al‑Alam Junction in Mawasi Rafah, killing one person and wounding several others.
Gaza’s Health Ministry also reported many injuries in the past 24 hours, while rescue teams warned that more victims remain trapped under rubble and in streets blocked by ongoing shelling.
In Jabalia refugee camp, in northern Gaza, a child sustained critical injuries after being shot by Israeli military vehicles.
East of Jabalia, near the Halawa displacement area, a man and a woman were killed and a third Palestinian wounded when occupation forces opened fire from cranes positioned near the camp.
Witnesses described the attack as indiscriminate, targeting civilians in areas where families had sought refuge.
In one of the most harrowing incidents of the day, Israeli forces executed 16-year-old Zaher Nasser Shamiya from Jabalia. Eyewitnesses said the soldiers shot him with live ammunition before running him over with a tank, tearing his body apart.
The serious Israeli violations extended further in Jabalia, where ten-year-old Bayan was shot in the head while sheltering with her family in the Halawa displacement area.
Her grandfather recounted how soldiers fired over the heads of trapped families, leaving them with no safe place to hide.
Bayan’s case reflects the plight of countless children wounded in supposed safe zones, as Israeli vehicles and soldiers crossed designated lines to fire directly at civilians.
Medical sources and civil defense teams reported the recovery of 30 bodies from a mass grave inside Gaza’s Shifa Medical Complex. Rescue workers believe more than 300 victims were buried in the grave, and recovery operations are ongoing. The discovery has added to mounting evidence of atrocities committed during the assault.
Elsewhere, Israeli tanks opened fire east of Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, while additional injuries were reported in Jabalia town, where another child was shot by military vehicles. Two Palestinians were also killed by Israeli gunfire outside the army’s deployment zones in northern Jabalia.
In addition, The United Nations, rejected remarks by Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, who claimed that the “yellow line” in Gaza represents a new border.
UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric stated during Tuesday’s daily press briefing that the organization “opposes any change to the borders of Gaza and Israel,” stressing that such claims contradict both the spirit and the text of the peace plan advanced by U.S. President Donald Trump.
ALL the kids in this video along with over 20,000 other kids have been murdered by the Israeli army in cold blood.
Don’t forget the children of Gaza.
They are NOT numbers. pic.twitter.com/giAizVPeZo— Martyrs of Gaza (@GazaMartyrs) December 10, 2025
Dujarric clarified that the UN recognizes only the existing boundaries between Gaza and Israel, not the so-called yellow line. Zamir had described the line, to which Israeli occupation forces withdrew under the first phase of Trump’s plan, as both a “forward defense line for the colonies and an offensive line.
Since the ceasefire announced on October 11, 2025, Gaza has recorded 379 deaths, 992 injuries, and 627 bodies recovered. The cumulative toll of Israel’s assault since October 7, 2023, has now risen to 70,369 killed and 171,069 wounded, the majority of them women and children.
The relentless attacks, combined with the discovery of mass graves and the targeting of civilians in displacement areas, underscore the scale of devastation in Gaza and the urgent need for international accountability.
