At least ten people died after Israeli attacks on a refugee camp in Gaza, according to officials. An Israeli airstrike and tank shelling killed six Palestinians, including two women and a girl, in Gaza City on Sunday, health officials reported. Al Jazeera's journalist Mohammed Wishah has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
Seventeen months after the war began and five months after a ceasefire, airstrikes are still killing civilians and the humanitarian situation remains dire, multiple reports indicate. Over 72,200 Palestinians have been killed in the war triggered by Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack, the Gaza Health Ministry stated. Pro-Israel Palestinian militias have launched raids, assassination, and abduction operations inside Hamas-controlled parts of Gaza in recent months, according to major media reports.
These militias are based in eastern Gaza under Israeli control after an October ceasefire and have received significant logistic support from Israel since last year, increasing their firepower recently. The most powerful Israeli-backed militias are the Popular Forces, based around Rafah, and the Strike Force Against Terror, east of Khan Younis, both striking into Hamas-controlled territory recently, multiple reports indicate. A pro-Israeli militia, the Ashraf al-Mansi group, sent fighters across the yellow line dividing zones of control in Gaza last week on a mission to ambush Hamas patrols and possibly assassinate senior Hamas figures, major media reported.
Hamas officials said it foiled an attempt by the Ashraf al-Mansi group amid fighting in the Nasser neighbourhood of Gaza City. Two weeks ago, the Ashraf al-Mansi group clashed with Hamas fighters in Jabalya, on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City, according to multiple reports. At least 10 Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes and fighting between Hamas and an Israel-backed militia in central Gaza, local sources said.
Strikes targeted Hamas security personnel who clashed with militia members east of Maghazi refugee camp, according to two sources. Israeli strikes in Gaza have averaged around 10 per day over the last five months and continued during campaigns in Iran and Lebanon, major media reported. Health authorities said six people were killed and four injured by an Israeli airstrike on al-Mawasi area in western Khan Younis early on Sunday.
A strike on a residential property in Nuseirat camp killed four: a couple, their 10-year-old son, and a 15-year-old neighbor, with the woman pregnant with twins, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital reported. A separate Israeli strike targeted a police vehicle on Salah al-Din route, killing eight police officers, including Colonel Iyad Ab Yousef, according to the Hamas-run Interior Ministry. The Israeli military said it struck a Hamas militant in response to an earlier incident where a militant opened fire at troops.
The Israeli military alleged that Wishah was a 'Hamas terrorist' and posed a threat to its forces. Al Jazeera and Hamas have previously denied that Wishah was affiliated with Hamas. Witnesses said Wishah was travelling in a vehicle along the coastal road west of Gaza City when hit by an Israeli drone missile.
The IDF confirmed targeting Wishah, accusing him of being a key terrorist in Hamas' rocket and weapons production and planning attacks against IDF troops. Al Jazeera condemned the killing as a 'deliberate and targeted crime' and a violation of international laws. Reporters Without Borders said Wishah was one of more than 220 journalists killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in two and a half years.
Alaa Radwan's home in Gaza was destroyed by Israeli bombing, according to multiple reports. She fled Palestine in 2024 after nearby airstrikes and now lives in Egypt, planning to study in the UK, and she and her husband bought their home outright a couple of months before Hamas's October 7 massacre. The Israeli army told Alaa Radwan and her family to evacuate on October 13, displacing them to Deir Al-balah.
Cold temperatures and rain have lingered into spring, soaking mattresses and flooding floors in displacement camps, major media reported. Israeli forces shot and killed third-grade student Ritaj Rihan while she was attending a class in a tent in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza, health and education officials said. The education ministry said Ritaj Rihan was hit by a bullet in front of her classmates, causing psychological shock.
Displaced Gaza children attend classes in crowded tents by volunteer teachers, facing harsh weather, resource shortages, and security risks, according to two sources. Amnesty International reports a systematic degradation of conditions for women and girls in Gaza, with a paralyzed health system and deliberate military maneuver. Health infrastructure in Gaza is destroyed or out of service, leading to practices like placing multiple infants in one incubator and reusing single-use materials, multiple reports indicate.
Thousands of pregnant or breastfeeding women suffer acute malnutrition, with precarious births in displacement camps, UN estimates show. Six Palestinians were injured when Israeli forces shelled a tent housing displaced families in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, according to sources at al-Helal field hospital and Nasser Hospital cited by Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Hani al-Shaer. A pregnant woman was among those wounded in the shelling in al-Mawasi, Anadolu news agency reported.
Three Palestinians were killed in a clash with settlers in the West Bank on Sunday, bringing recent deaths to six, according to two sources. The Israeli military responded to reports of settlers attacking Palestinians near Khirbet Abu Falah, with two killed by gunfire and one by suffocation from tear gas. At least three Palestinian women were killed and eight injured after missile debris hit a beauty salon in Beit Awwa, West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society stated, revising the death toll from four to three women.
The incident happened after the Israeli military said Iran fired missiles towards it, which it was intercepting. Response teams faced difficulties reaching the site due to closed iron gates, impacting rescue time, the PRCS added. Seven people were killed in an Israeli airstrike overnight on Saturday in Gaza, according to Gaza's civil defense which is controlled by Hamas.
Al-Aqsa hospital spokesperson said 10 bodies were brought from the scene, with dozens wounded. Israeli shelling and drone strikes killed at least five people and wounded 11 others on Friday in Gaza, Palestinian and Israeli officials said. The latest bloodshed unfolded in central Gaza’s Maghazi refugee camp and the southern city of Rafah, research sources noted.
In Maghazi, two Palestinian men were killed when a drone strike struck its targets, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. In Rafah, Israel’s military said its air force killed three 'terrorists' after a group of eight individuals emerged from an underground location. Israeli naval gunboats chased fishing vessels and opened heavy machine-gun fire on fishermen off Rafah’s shoreline, Wafa reported, with no immediate casualties from the naval gunfire incident, research sources added.
Two Palestinians were killed in a drone strike targeting an electric bike near al-Masdar village in the central Gaza Strip, medical sources said. An Israeli drone also opened fire in the same village, killing a woman. In Khan Younis, Israeli gunfire killed one Palestinian and wounded four others in the western al-Satar area, medics said.
A fifth Palestinian was killed by Israeli gunfire near the Halawa displacement camp in Jabalia in northern Gaza, and two children were injured when an Israeli drone dropped a bomb in northern Gaza, research sources reported. Since the ceasefire, Israeli fire has killed more than 650 Palestinians, about half women and children. The Israeli military said five soldiers have been killed in attacks by Palestinian groups over the same period.
The US-brokered ceasefire has been in place for more than three months, though both Israel and Hamas accuse each other of repeated violations, research sources said. Washington announced earlier this month that the agreement had entered its second phase, intended to bring a definitive end to the conflict. Abu Ubaida, Hamas military wing spokesperson, rejected disarmament talks before Israel fulfills commitments under Trump's plan.
The Israeli military states that it will investigate the incident. Israel has tasked militias with security duties in its controlled zone and deployed armed men from the Popular Forces at the Rafah crossing to Egypt after it partially opened last month, multiple reports indicate. Israel still occupies more than half of Gaza under a ceasefire since October, with residents confined to about a third of the territory, according to two sources.
Palestinians say Israeli forces have been moving yellow concrete markers westward into unoccupied territory; Israel denies this. Rafah is the site of Gaza’s only border crossing that does not lead into Israel, serving as a vital lifeline for humanitarian aid, research sources noted. Palestinian authorities have demanded the immediate reopening of the Rafah crossing, a key provision of the second phase of the US-brokered ceasefire agreement.
The targeted areas lie outside zones under Israeli military control as defined by the Gaza ceasefire agreement, sources added. The Israeli army claimed that the attacks targeted what it called Hamas members across the Gaza Strip. The attacks were the latest Israeli violation of the ceasefire agreement that halted Israel’s two-year war, research sources said.
The UN human rights office warned of 'a pattern of ill-treatment, abuse and humiliation of returnees by Israeli forces and armed Palestinians allegedly backed by the Israeli military'. Hamas police force reappeared in Gaza streets after the October ceasefire, reasserting control in areas not controlled by Israel, multiple reports indicate. Witnesses said militia set up a checkpoint east of Maghazi, came under attack from Hamas, triggering clashes, and Israeli drones intervened with strikes.