Israeli strikes killed four Palestinians, including two children, and wounded at least 35 others, most of them children, in attacks across Gaza early on Thursday, according to Palestinian medical sources.
In southern Gaza, an Israeli strike on a tent sheltering displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis killed 20-year-old Abdullah Nasser al-Balaawi and 8-year-old Ratel Mahmoud Abdullah, while five others, including children, were injured, a medical source at Nasser Hospital said.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that a missile fired from an Israeli helicopter struck the tent near the Applied College area while displaced Palestinians were asleep.
Elsewhere in Khan Younis, Israeli artillery shelled areas south of the city, while military vehicles opened heavy fire towards Al-Mawasi, northwest of Rafah. No casualties were immediately reported.
Strikes hit central and northern Gaza
In central Gaza, child Zaid Mohammed Nofal was killed and four others were injured in an Israeli strike targeting an apartment opposite the municipality building in the Bureij refugee camp, according to a medical source at Shuhadaa Al-Aqsa Hospital.
In Gaza City, a drone strike killed one Palestinian riding a bicycle near Yarmouk Stadium on Al-Wehda Street and injured 10 others, medical sources said.
In a separate drone attack, four Palestinians were injured, one of them critically, after the strike targeted a group of civilians near the Abdul Aal intersection on Al-Jalaa Street.
Another air strike hit an apartment in the Al-Bassam building near Salah al-Din School in the Al-Nasr neighbourhood, injuring 13 Palestinians, most of them children, according to a medical source at Al-Shifa Hospital.
Eyewitnesses said the strike ignited a fire in the apartment before local volunteers and civil defence crews extinguished the blaze.
Israeli artillery also heavily shelled areas east of the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City, accompanied by intense gunfire from military vehicles positioned east of the so-called "yellow line."
Repeated ceasefire violations by Israel
Despite a ceasefire that took effect on October 10 2025, Israel has continued daily attacks across Gaza, which Palestinian authorities say have killed 1,209 people and injured 3,943 others, most of them women and children.
Since October 2023, Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians and injured over 174,000 others, according to Palestinian authorities, who say most of the victims are women and children.
The authorities also say about 90 percent of the enclave's infrastructure has been destroyed.
