Gaza (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Five Palestinians, including a woman and a child, were killed Thursday by raids and gunfire from Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, according to what was announced by the Civil Defense and hospitals operating in the war-ravaged Strip.
Published on: 05/11/2026 - 19:33
Israel continues to carry out military operations in Gaza despite the ceasefire agreement that entered into force on October 10, 2025, two years after a war that broke out following the unprecedented attack launched by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Civil Defense spokesman in Gaza, Mahmoud Basal, told Agence France-Presse that among the victims was “a 12-year-old child who was shot dead by the occupation forces in the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.”
A few kilometers away, near the town of Al-Zawaida, two more people were killed as a result of shelling and an “Israeli drone attack.”
The nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital confirmed to AFP that the three were dead upon arrival.
In Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, a woman was killed by “occupation bullets,” according to Basal, and Nasser Hospital confirmed her death to Agence France-Presse.
Later, Basal announced, “One person was killed and others were injured in a raid launched by an Israeli drone... west of Gaza City.”
In response to an inquiry from Agence France-Presse, the Israeli army said that it “targeted Hamas terrorists” in the Al-Zawaida area, indicating that information related to the killing of the Palestinian woman in Khan Yunis was being “verified.”
More than 1,600 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire agreement entered into force, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which is under the authority of Hamas, figures that the United Nations considers reliable.
The Israeli army announced that seven of its members were killed in the same period, in addition to one civilian contractor.
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