Two Palestinians, including an eight-year-old child, were reported dead in Gaza on Friday: the child died of wounds sustained from Israeli gunfire, while rescue crews recovered the body of a man killed in an earlier Israeli airstrike. Renewed Israeli bombardment and gunfire also injured several Palestinians amid continuing violations of the ceasefire agreement.
In Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, Yamen Hisham Yahya Saqer, 8, died on Friday of wounds sustained when Israeli forces shot him in the Qizan Rashwan area on Wednesday, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
Rescue and Civil Defense crews recovered the body of Mohammad Musallam Atwan Iq‘ais, 47, from the al-Waha area north of Gaza City on Friday. He had been killed in an Israeli airstrike there three days earlier.
🚨 Israeli strike destroys Gaza school educating 350 children
An overnight Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the Saftawi area of Jabaliya, northern Gaza, destroyed the nearby Al-Zahraa makeshift tent school, which provided free education to approximately 350 children, as well as the Little Smile Kindergarten. The strike also damaged a camp sheltering displaced Palestinian families.
“All the desks and educational tents were destroyed. Even the stationery we had for students and teachers was ruined,” Mousa Zaqout, a teacher, told Drop Site’s Abdel Qader Sabbah. He said the volunteer-run school provided free education to children from the camp and surrounding areas.
Injured Palestinians, the majority of whom are women and children, are being transferred to hospitals following an Israeli drone strike that targeted a phone charging point in the Al-Maslakh Al-Turki area, west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. https://t.co/duF6B2fkXW
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“There is no ceasefire or anything like that on the ground,” Zaqout added. “Every hour, every moment, there is bombing and destruction.”
Gaza’s Ministry of Education condemned the destruction of the two educational facilities, describing Israel’s continued targeting of schools as part of a systematic destruction of education in Gaza.
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Also, an Israeli drone strike injured several Palestinians in the al-Maslakh area west of Khan Younis. Another Palestinian suffered serious injuries in a strike on the Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
Israeli drones also dropped bombs south of Khan Younis, while military vehicles opened heavy fire east of Hamad City, north of Khan Younis.
Central Khan Younis Eunice has been under intense, terrifying and consistent gunfire. No one should have to live like this.
Intense and continuous gunfire, artillery shelling, and drone activity have repeatedly targeted Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, creating severe panic and danger for civilians and displaced families.
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The attacks come amid continuing Israeli violations of the ceasefire, including aerial and artillery bombardment, gunfire, and targeted killings. Israeli forces have also continued expanding the territory under their military control by moving and extending the so-called “Yellow Line.”
The expansion of the Yellow Line reduces the areas accessible to Palestinians and leaves large parts of Gaza under military threat despite the ceasefire agreement.
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza had not released a separate casualty bulletin for Friday at the time of reporting. The ministry normally includes Friday’s casualties in its Saturday bulletin, which covers the preceding 48 hours.
In its Thursday, October 29, update, the ministry reported that 1,574 Palestinians had been killed and 5,687 injured since the ceasefire agreement took effect on October 11, 2025.
The same update put the cumulative toll since the beginning of the Israeli offensive on October 7, 2023, at 74,570 Palestinians killed and 175,808 injured. These are the ministry’s previously published figures, not an updated total for Friday.
