Israeli strikes and gunfire killed six Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Friday, including women and children, as ongoing violations of the October 11, 2025 “ceasefire” agreement continued to raise the casualty toll.
Attacks were documented in Gaza City, Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, and the al‑Mawasi coastal area west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to medical sources and the Palestinian Health Ministry.
In Gaza City, medical teams confirmed that Mohammad Tayseer Obeid was killed and six civilians, including women and children, were wounded when an Israeli drone fired a missile at an apartment in the al‑Taj building on al‑Yarmouk Street.
A second Israeli strike targeted another apartment west of the city, causing additional injuries. Later, Israeli warplanes bombed a separate apartment on al‑Yarmouk Street, killing one Palestinian and wounding others who were transferred to al‑Shifa Hospital.
In Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, a woman, En’aam Abdullah al‑Attar, 52, was killed when an Israeli drone dropped an explosive device near Abu Tammam School.
In al‑Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, another woman, Amani Ibrahim Abu Jazar, 49, was killed by Israeli gunfire. Medical teams at Nasser Hospital said her body arrived after she was shot southwest of the city.
In the central Gaza Strip, Israeli forces shelled the “new camp” area west of the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing Suleiman Ibrahim Farajallah and wounding several others. Additional civilians were wounded when Israeli forces targeted a tent inside a shelter center west of Deir al‑Balah.
Later, Taher Abdul‑Wahed was killed when Israeli forces bombed the roof of a room behind the al‑Tawhid Mosque west of Nuseirat. Several Palestinians were also injured when the army bombarded an‑Nakhil Street in Deir al‑Balah.
On Thursday, medical sources told Anadolu Agency that a young man was killed, and his wife and children were wounded, by heavy Israeli artillery fire and gunfire from military vehicles that invaded the area around Dawla Junction southeast of the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
Overnight, Israeli military vehicles advanced several dozen meters toward Salah al‑Din Street, pushing aside concrete blocks marking what Israel calls the “yellow line,” expanding areas under military control and further restricting movement for Palestinians.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Friday that Israel continues killing Gaza’s children as a “routine matter,” noting that 274 children have been killed—an average of one child per day—since the ceasefire, and that more than 21,000 children have been killed since the beginning of the genocide in 2023.
The report said most children were killed by airstrikes, while others died from sniper fire, collapsing buildings, or shrapnel. Some children, it added, died from wounds that Gaza’s collapsed medical system could no longer treat.
Humanitarian agencies warn that extreme levels of acute food insecurity now affect 77% of Gaza’s population, including more than 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women. Despite the October 2025 ceasefire agreement, which stipulated the entry of 600 aid trucks per day under the humanitarian protocol, Israel has not complied, the Gaza Government Media Office said. Aid entering the Strip has not exceeded 38% of pre‑war levels.
Haaretz also highlighted that Gaza’s humanitarian situation has been catastrophic for years, noting that homes remain destroyed and 1.7 million Palestinians continue to live in tents, without electricity, running water, or sewage systems.
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Hospitals have recently reported a surge in rodent‑bite injuries, a dangerous indicator of the worsening environmental crisis caused by accumulated waste and widespread sewage around displacement areas under Israel’s tightened siege—conditions that threaten thousands with severe health risks.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, since the October 11, 2025 “ceasefire” agreement, the cumulative toll has reached 1,127 killed, 3,643 wounded, and 800 bodies recovered from destroyed areas.
Since the start of the genocide in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, the total number of Palestinians killed has risen to 73,250, with 173,751 wounded.
The Palestinian Health Ministry has not released its Friday report on the cumulative death and injury toll in the Gaza Strip; the figures above reflect the updated totals issued on Thursday.
