Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire across the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed four Palestinians, including two children, and injured more than twenty‑five others, in continued violations of the fragile “ceasefire agreement” in place since October 2025. Eight Palestinians were killed, dozens injured, across the devasted and besieged Gaza Strip, in the last 24 hours.
Medical sources confirmed that ten‑year‑old Walid Yousef Abu Jazar died at dawn from wounds sustained in an earlier Israeli strike on the al‑Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
Local reports documented artillery shelling in the northern areas of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, heavy gunfire east of Khan Younis, and Israeli naval fire targeting the Gaza City shoreline.
In addition, an Israeli drone strike targeted a tent as a civilian vehicle carrying women and children was passing by near Dabit Junction in the center of Gaza City, wounding all passengers with flying shrapnel. One woman lost her arm and an eye in the attack.
Medical sources said 22 Palestinians were injured in the attacks, many of them in critical condition, following the Israeli strike on a displaced Palestinians tent, near Dabit junction.
Casualties and widespread panic were reported after Israeli forces targeted a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza City.
“In addition, Israeli occupation forces detonated residential blocks belonging to displaced Palestinians in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli occupation forces, in clear violation of the “ceasefire agreement,” pushed the so‑called ‘Yellow Line’ deeper into Deir al‑Balah, tightening their control over the last 30% of land accessible to Palestinians.
Eyewitnesses also reported a limited Israeli incursion east of Maghazi and Deir al‑Balah, in central Gaza, where two tanks and a military bulldozer advanced roughly two hundred meters, removing yellow concrete blocks marking the ceasefire line while firing heavily.
The escalation follows the killing of three police officers when Israeli forces struck a vehicle in the Maghazi refugee camp on Friday, and the killing of another Palestinian in a drone strike in Beit Lahia. Several others were wounded, according to Gaza’s Interior Ministry.
Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said a delegation from the movement and other Palestinian factions will travel to Cairo in the coming days to deliver their response to new ceasefire proposals.
He added that contacts continue to ensure full implementation of the agreement and transition to the next phase. A factional source told Al‑Araby Al‑Jadeed that national and Islamic factions urged the Gaza Administration Committee to enter the Strip and begin its duties, but the committee said its role is limited to administrative matters.
The source added that the committee has been unable to enter Gaza for more than five months, amid accusations that Israel and “UN Gaza Peace Council” representative Nikolay Mladenov are preventing it from operating.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza reported that hospitals received eight Palestinians in the past twenty‑four hours, including six newly killed, one who died of previous wounds, and one body recovered from under rubble.
Twenty Palestinians were injured. The ministry said several victims remain under debris and on the roads, with ambulance and civil defense crews unable to reach them due to ongoing Israeli fire.
Since the “ceasefire” took effect on October 11, the ministry has documented 1,038 Palestinians killed and 3,329 injured, with 786 bodies recovered from destroyed areas. Since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza on October 7, 2023, the cumulative toll has reached 73,051 killed and 173,437 injured.
These figures reflect only casualties that medical teams have been able to reach, as Israeli attacks and ceasefire violations continue across the Gaza Strip.
