On Saturday, Day 729 of the ongoing genocide, Israeli missiles and shells killed at least 70 Palestinians and injured dozens more across the devastated, starved, and besieged coastal enclave.
Israeli forces escalated their assault on the Gaza Strip, killing scores of civilians in a series of strikes that targeted residential neighborhoods and aid centers.
Medical sources in Gaza reported that the bodies of 15 victims were transferred to Shifa Hospital, 32 to Baptist Hospital, 2 to Al-Awda Hospital, 19 to Nasser Hospital, and 2 to Al-Aqsa Hospital.
🚨Seventeen-year-old Ahmed Abdel Qader was shot in the head by Israeli and American terrorists while trying to reach U.S. Gaza Humanitarian Foundation death trap at the Netzarim corridor. His mother, Suad, says he was desperate to find flour as famine tightened its grip on their… pic.twitter.com/Js5R7xukIH
— Translating Falasteen (Palestine) (@translatingpal) October 4, 2025
At least 17 Palestinians, mostly children and women, were killed when Israeli warplanes bombed the home of the Abdul-Al family near Al-Mahatta Mosque in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighborhood.
Medical sources also reported dozens of injuries and said that 20 people remain trapped under the rubble.
Additional casualties were confirmed in central Gaza, where Israeli drones and ground units opened fire near the Nuseirat refugee camp and the Netzarim aid corridor. Among the dead were civilians shot by quadcopter drones while inspecting their homes, as well as others killed near humanitarian sites.
Israeli drones also fire live rounds at displaced Palestinians, including near aid centers, killing three Palestinians.
One Palestinian was killed and another injured by Israeli quadcopter drones that opened fire at them while inspecting their bombarded home near the Lababidi interception in Gaza city.
Another Palestinian was killed near an aid distribution center near Netzarim junction, in central Gaza, while a third Palestinian was killed by Israeli army fire north of Nuseirat refugee camp, also in central Gaza.
The attacks occurred just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel had agreed to an initial withdrawal line under a proposed ceasefire plan. Trump stated that the ceasefire would take effect immediately upon Hamas’s approval of the line, with a prisoner exchange to follow.
In a statement, Hamas said it accepts the release of all captives, both living and deceased, under Trump’s proposal and reaffirmed its readiness to transfer Gaza’s administration to a Palestinian body of independent figures backed by Arab and Islamic consensus.
Despite these diplomatic overtures, Israeli bombardment continued across the enclave, underscoring the fragility of the proposed deal.
The plan envisions a phased Israeli withdrawal and the deployment of an Arab-Islamic international force to oversee disarmament and stabilization.
Just an hour ago, Israeli terrorists celebrated as aircraft struck the already-damaged Al-Azhar University campus in Al-Mughraqa.
The university had been partially destroyed months ago, but the Faculty of Law building remained standing; now it has been blown up. pic.twitter.com/XfrHjwWA2S
— Israel Genocide Tracker (@trackingisrael) October 4, 2025
Hamas has not formally accepted the force’s mandate, and Israel insists on retaining control over Gaza’s borders and the Philadelphi Corridor until full demilitarization is verified.
The Israeli military announced Saturday that its forces now hold roughly 50% of Gaza City, following intensified ground operations across the besieged enclave. A military source also reported that approximately 900,000 residents have fled southward since the start of the campaign.
Military officials say their current objective is to consolidate territorial gains made during urban and highway maneuvers, pending the full execution of the proposed ceasefire agreement. As part of this strategy, the Israeli army has formally designated the entire northern Gaza Strip as an active combat zone. In a public statement, the army warned civilians to evacuate immediately, stressing that the area is unsafe and should be completely avoided.
Since March 18, 2025, after Israel violated the mediated ceasefire deal, the cumulative toll has reached 13,486 killed and 57,389 injured.
Israel has now killed at least 67,074 Palestinians, including 19,424 children and 23,000 women, and injured 169,430 others, with children and women likely comprising over half of the wounded. These figures remain incomplete, as many victims are still trapped under rubble or lying in the streets, unreachable by emergency and rescue teams.
