Israel killed six Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 26 more in the past 48 hours, the Health Ministry reported on Saturday, four of them newly killed and two who died of earlier wounds. On Friday evening an Israeli drone struck a phone-charging point in the al-Maslakh area west of Khan Younis and wounded at least 14 Palestinians, including children, among them a man, his wife and their children.
An Israeli drone killed Diaa Abu al-Rous early on Saturday in a strike north of Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, a medical source at Al-Awda Hospital told Anadolu. Witnesses said the drone hit near the headquarters of an electricity company north of the camp.
Arafat al-Arair died of serious wounds he suffered several days earlier when an Israeli strike hit a vehicle in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, south-west of Gaza City, according to a medical source at Al-Shifa Hospital.
Israeli military vehicles and artillery shelled areas across the Strip, including eastern Beit Lahia, Gaza City, Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah, and Israeli warships shelled the Gaza City coastline and fired machine guns toward the shore, local sources told Anadolu. Israeli military vehicles also fired on tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in the al-Iqlimi and Bir 19 areas south of Khan Younis, striking several tents, though no injuries were reported.
An Israeli strike on a residential building in Bureij camp in central Gaza caused widespread destruction in the crowded camp, according to WAFA. Israeli forces also shot eight-year-old Yamen Hisham Yahya Saqr in the Qizan Rashwan area south of Khan Younis on Wednesday, and he died of his wounds.
Israel has now killed 1,580 Palestinians and wounded 5,711 since the ceasefire of 11 October 2025, and 845 bodies have been recovered from rubble in that time, according to the Health Ministry. Since October 2023 Israel has killed 74,594 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 175,834. The ministry added 18 names to the cumulative toll after its committee completed and approved their records. The full count is on our Gaza record.
