Israeli Airstrike Kills Two Palestinians, Including 3-Year-Old, Near Deir Al-Balah Bakery

Reklamı Kapat News World Israeli strike kills two Gazans including a 3-year-old boy - medics Israeli strike kills two Gazans including a 3-year-old boy - medics An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, according to Palestinian health officials. Reuters WORLD Published August 30,2026 03:57 PM Subscribe An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, in the central Gaza ⁠Strip on Sunday, ⁠health officials said. Gaza medics said the Israeli airstrike near a bakery in Deir Al-Balah killed one ⁠man, Hussam Nusair, a three-year-old boy, Tayyem Hamdan, and wounded several others. An ⁠October 2025 U.S.-backed ceasefire halted major fighting in the shattered territory, but it failed to end strikes by the Israeli military. Hamas ⁠accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement a broader plan by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the Gaza conflict, which also includes Israeli withdrawals and Hamas ⁠disarmament. More ‌than 1,300 ‌Palestinians have been killed ⁠in Gaza since the ‌ceasefire took effect last October, according to Gazan health officials. Donald Trump Gaza Israeli military Gazans Gaza conflict Israeli strike A Closing chapters of terrorism will bring new hope to region: Turkish President Erdoğan Algeria moves to impose death penalty for setting forest fires NATO sees no imminent threat of attack - official Russia accuses US of viewing Europe as potential nuclear battlefield Fenerbahçe beat Samsunspor 2-0 away in Turkish Super Lig Please clickto read our informative text prepared pursuant to the Law on the Protection of Personal Data No. 6698 and to get information about the cookies used on our website in accordance with the relevant legislation. 6698 sayılı Kişisel Verilerin Korunması Kanunu uyarınca hazırlanmış aydınlatma metnimizi okumak ve sitemizde ilgili mevzuata uygun olarak kullanılan çerezlerle ilgili bilgi almak için lütfen tıklayınız.

The latest news to your inbox every morning. A smart assistant answers only from the context of the news Ask anything you want about this news The latest news to your inbox every morning. A smart assistant answers only from the context of the news Ask anything you want about this news A Saudi electronic newspaper founded in 2007 that focuses on publishing local news and competing in breaking news with professionalism, credibility, and objectivity Officials in Gaza's health sector said an Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians today, one of them a 3-year-old child, in the central Gaza Strip. According to Reuters, medics said the airstrike that hit near a bakery in Deir al-Balah left a man named Husam Nasser and a boy named Tim Hamdan dead, and several others were injured and transported to Al-Aqsa Hospital in the city. According to the Israeli army, it targeted a fighter from Hamas and succeeded in killing him, noting that Nasser was involved in attacks on Israeli forces and civilians. The army said its forces in the southern region remain at their posts as per the agreement, adding that they will continue to deal with any threat. Hamas did not immediately comment on the strike. According to Gaza health authorities, around 1,300 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been martyred since the ceasefire came into effect last October. Discuss the news with artificial intelligence.

An Israeli strike has killed a man and his eight-year-old daughter in the Gaza Strip, health officials say. Mohamed Abu Selmia, head of al-Shifa Hospital, the enclave's largest medical facility, said the air strike hit a vehicle in western Gaza City, killing Youssef Akila and his daughter Wafaa and wounding six others. An Israeli military spokesperson said forces targeted a Hamas militant and the military was still looking into results of the attack. An October 2025 US-backed ceasefire halted major fighting in the territory but it failed to end strikes by the Israeli military, which it said aimed to thwart attacks by Hamas and other militants. Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement US President Donald Trump's broader plan to end the Gaza Strip conflict, which also includes Israeli withdrawals and Hamas disarmament. More than 1300 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire took effect last October, according to the territory's health officials, while the Israeli military says four Israeli soldiers have been killed. Hamas does not usually disclose information about fatalities among its fighters. Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, on Sunday defended the lack of progress in talks about next steps in the Gaza Strip ceasefire, saying that "it's been a dystopian place for a long time". Speaking at a news conference in Ukraine, Kushner defended his work with fellow US envoy Steve Witkoff, saying the militarisation by Hamas in the Palestinian territory was "beyond our comprehension, so demilitarising it is not going to be easy". “But we’re very determined, and we're working through these things,” Kushner said. with AP

Gaza, August 31 (EFE) - At least five people were killed and several others injured in two separate Israeli bombardments in the Gaza City (north), Palestinian medical and emergency sources told EFE on Monday. Israel bombed near midday the courtyard of a home in the western area of the Gazan capital, killing two people; and at the start of the afternoon a Israeli drone launched a missile against a vehicle in the Tel Al Hawa neighborhood, killing three more people, according to Shifa Hospital in the city. IMAGES: MOHAMMED SABER. FOOTAGE OF ONE OF THE Israeli airstrikes on the city of Gaza. The most read: 1. Meloni breaks record for longevity in crisis-prone Italy 2. Lockerbie, the tragedy that never ends 3. Shipwreck of the 'Filo Jet' in Cyprus: survivors accuse the crew of abandoning ship first 4. A ferry with 267 people sinks off the northern coast of Cyprus: eight dead and 23 missing 5. A US attack on an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz leaves at least two dead 6. Nicolás Maduro reappears from a New York prison with photos and a message: 'Venezuela will rise again' 7. Trump posts an AI-generated video showing the destruction of the Iranian island of Jarg 8. Sweden deploys fighters and ships to Finland to bolster its border with Russia 9. An Economics PhD from Chicago leads Iran's 'resistance economy' against Trump 10. Austria tackles the prohibition of 'political Islam'

Gaza/Jerusalem, Sep 1 (EFE). A woman and two children aged 3 and 13 were killed this Tuesday in the city of Gaza (northern Gaza Strip) after Israel bombed an area in the heart of the capital eleven times, confirmed Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and observed by EFE in the attacked area. Both the Israeli press and sources in the enclave indicate that the bombardments occurred following an infiltration operation by a unit that managed to escape, which could be composed of members of local militias allied with Israel. IMAGES: MOHAMMED SABER. RESOURCES OF THE ISRAELI ATTACK IN GAZA. Most read - 1. Meloni breaks the record for longevity in a Italy used to crises - 2. Wreck of the ' filo Jet' in Cyprus: survivors report that the crew abandoned the ship first - 3. How the health cordon against the AfD has destabilized German politics - 4. Sweden deploys fighters and ships in Finland to bolster its border with Russia - 5. Austria addresses the ban on 'political Islam' - 6. Germany coordinates with Taliban representatives the return of thousands of Afghans to their country - 7. Lockerbie, the tragedy that never ends - 8. Alejandro Betancourt, from 'bolichico' investigated in Spain to oil partner of Trump - 9. Nicolás Maduro reappears from a New York prison with photos and a message: 'Venezuela will be reborn' - 10. Trump releases an AI-generated video showing the destruction of the Iranian island of Jarg

Israeli attacks have killed at least five Palestinians in multiple strikes across the Gaza Strip, including three members of the same family. An Israeli drone strike targeted a group of Palestinians early on Friday morning north of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing three members of the Abdeen family, medical sources told Al Jazeera reporters. Their bodies were transported to Nasser Medical Complex in the governorate. Recommended Stories list of 4 items- list 1 of 4Armed with a whistle, Gaza’s lifeguards do what they can to save swimmers - list 2 of 4PA activists face ‘terror’ charges over Trump golf resort protest: Report - list 3 of 4New Israeli roadblocks entrench siege of homes in West Bank’s Qusra - list 4 of 4Federal US judge faces complaint over staunch pro-Israel advocacy Another Israeli attack killed a Palestinian man in the Sabra neighbourhood of Gaza City when a drone fired a missile at a group of civilians, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency. The body of Hassan al-Deiri and a number of wounded people were taken to the city’s al-Shifa Hospital. A third attack hit a tent of displaced people in the Mashahra area east of Gaza City, killing one person and injuring several others. The Israeli military also launched a strike in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Friday, killing three Palestinians. It identified one of them as Qais Bitawi, who the army claimed, without evidence, to be a Hamas operative. The Israeli military also claimed, without evidence, that it killed two Palestinian commanders – one with Hamas and one with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) – in separate attacks on Gaza City on Thursday. Israeli forces also carried out a wide-scale demolition operation in areas under its control southeast of Gaza City throughout Friday, according to Al Jazeera reporters in the strip. Hunger across Gaza The latest wave of attacks comes despite a United States-brokered “ceasefire” in place since October 2025, and as the Gaza Strip continues to face severe food insecurity. New data released on Thursday from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) showed that nearly half of those surveyed in Gaza, or 46 percent, reported going to bed hungry at least once in the previous 30 days. Seven percent said they had gone to bed hungry more than 10 times during that period, while half of households reported completely running out of food at least once. The August food security analysis also found that 21 percent of surveyed households were eating only one meal a day. About 38 percent had reduced the number of meals they ate each day, while 17 percent restricted adults’ food intake daily to prioritise children. Three-quarters of surveyed households reported difficulties accessing markets, with cash shortages and high food prices among the main barriers. Food access remains severely constrained amid Israeli restrictions on the entry of goods. The daily average number of trucks crossing into Gaza since last year’s ceasefire is 217, according to WFP – far below the 600 trucks per day agreed under the ceasefire agreement.

Gaza runs out of cancer medicines, as Israeli strikes continue to hit hospitals Officials at Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital say cancer medicines have completely run out across the besieged enclave, after an Israeli strike damaged the facility’s water tanks, laboratory equipment, and storage areas in Deir el-Balah. Save Share Gaza runs out of cancer medicines, as Israeli strikes continue to hit hospitals Officials at Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital say cancer medicines have completely run out across the besieged enclave, after an Israeli strike damaged the facility’s water tanks, laboratory equipment, and storage areas in Deir el-Balah. Save Share Follow Al Jazeera English:

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Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least five people, according to health officials. Medics said on Monday that two people were killed when an Israeli air strike hit a crowd near a municipal public park in Gaza City, an area packed with displaced families. Several people were reported to have been wounded. Recommended Stories list of 4 items- list 1 of 4Israeli attacks in Gaza kill four people, hit hospital supply warehouse - list 2 of 4Israel’s Ben-Gvir lauds harsh conditions for Palestinian female prisoners - list 3 of 4‘An act of resistance’: Raja Shehadeh’s diaries find a new home in Scotland - list 4 of 4Greece signs $3.5bn air defence deal with Israel A separate air strike hit a vehicle in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood in western Gaza City, killing at least three people, health officials said. The Israeli military claimed the two attacks targeted Hamas fighters without providing evidence. Relatives and friends paid their respects to two of the five men killed on Monday at al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical facility, before carrying their bodies to a cemetery to bury them. Israel has escalated its attacks across the Gaza Strip in recent days despite a “ceasefire” agreed in October. An Israeli strike on Deir el-Balah in central Gaza on Sunday killed two Palestinians, including a three-year-old, while Israeli attacks killed at least four people on Saturday. “There is no ceasefire. There has not been one good day in Gaza since October 7, [2023],” Amjad Abu Abdo, a relative of one of the people killed in the attacks on Monday, told the Reuters news agency. “I swear, we do not sleep from the sound of drones. You sleep scared of being hit.” Since the “ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas took effect, 1,313 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said. Meanwhile, 4,000 to 5,000 Palestinians remain missing and are believed to be dead under rubble in Gaza, the Palestinian Centre for Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons said on Saturday. The Israeli army reported five deaths in its ranks since October as well as the death of one civilian contractor. Since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023, nearly 73,500 Palestinians have been confirmed killed in Gaza and nearly 174,500 injured, most of them women and children, according to the Health Ministry.

At least four people have been killed and several wounded in Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip, health officials said. At least three people, including two children, were killed and eight people were wounded in an Israeli drone attack in the al-Kateeba district west of Gaza City in northern Gaza on Tuesday morning, a medical source at al-Shifa Hospital told Al Jazeera. Recommended Stories list of 3 items- list 1 of 3Israeli strike kills 3-year-old child in Gaza - list 2 of 3Israeli air strikes on Gaza kill at least five people - list 3 of 3Damaged Gaza ambulance becomes ‘dream bus’ for children Images shared online showed smoke rising and the sound of successive explosions from the attack. Reporting from Gaza City, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said he counted at least 13 drones in the area at the time of the attack. “For 35 minutes there were nonstop attacks involving drones, three of them hovering at a dangerously low level,” he said. “Security personnel on the ground say they spotted a group of special forces who got into a direct exchange of fire. But the aerial coverage was so intense. The situation was very chaotic.” In central Gaza, a separate Israeli attack in Deir el-Balah killed at least one person, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said in a statement, without providing further details. The Israeli military said it struck several targets in Gaza, claiming the strikes were aimed at removing threats to its forces. The Israeli television station Channel 12 reported explosions were heard across the Strip, while the Palestinian news network Quds reported that missiles and quadcopter drones were used in the attacks. Israel has killed at least 1,320 Palestinians and injured more than 4,300 since the so-called “ceasefire” in Gaza took effect in October 2025.

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Summary The ceasefire reached in October 2025 with U.S. support has halted major fighting in the ruined sector, but it has not stopped Israeli airstrikes, which say their aim is to thwart attacks by Hamas and other militant groups. Health officials in Gaza said an Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians today, including a three-year-old child, in the central Gaza Strip. Rescue workers said the airstrike, which occurred near a bakery in Deir al-Balah, killed a man named Hossam Nassir and a child named Tim Hamdan, and left several others wounded. The Israeli military said it targeted a Hamas fighter, giving no further details. The ceasefire reached in October 2025 with U.S. support has halted major fighting in the ruined sector, but it has not stopped Israeli airstrikes, which say their aim is to thwart attacks by Hamas and other militant groups. Read more This section contains related op-eds, placed in (Related Nodes field) Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement a broader plan proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the Gaza war, which also includes the withdrawal of Israeli forces and the disarmament of Hamas. According to Gaza health officials, more than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect in October 2025, and the Israeli army says four of its soldiers have died since then.

Summary A Palestinian citizen and his eight-year-old daughter were killed, and six others were wounded by an Israeli air strike that targeted a vehicle west of Gaza City, according to the Shifa Hospital director Mohammed Abu Selmiya. The Israeli army claimed it targeted a Hamas fighter and said it continues to review the attack’s results, while Hamas accused Tel Aviv of continuing to breach the ceasefire agreement brokered by the United States since October 2025 and undermining President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war, amid medical reports indicating more than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed since the truce took effect. Health officials said an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip killed a man and his young daughter today, Sunday. Mohammed Abu Selmiya, head of Shifa, the Strip’s largest hospital, said the Israeli air strike targeted a vehicle in the west of Gaza City, killing two people, Yousef Aqila and his daughter Wafa (8), and injuring six others. An Israeli army spokesman said forces targeted a Hamas fighter, adding that the army is still examining the attack’s outcomes. The US-backed ceasefire, in place since October 2025, halted major fighting in the Gaza Strip but did not stop the Israeli military’s assaults, which it says are aimed at thwarting Hamas attacks and other armed groups in Gaza. Read more. This section contains related op-eds placed in Related Nodes. Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement President Trump’s broader plan to end the war, which also includes Israel’s withdrawal from the Strip and disarming Hamas. While health officials reported about 1,300 Palestinians killed, mostly civilians, since the ceasefire began in October 2025, the Israeli army says four Israeli soldiers were killed in the same period, and Hamas generally does not disclose casualty figures among its fighters.

Five Palestinians were martyred today, Friday, in separate attacks targeting the northern and southern Gaza Strip, including three from the same family. In the latest attack, a medical source for Anadolu stated that an Israeli drone struck a refugee camp tent in the Mashhahea area east of Gaza City, resulting in the martyrdom of a Palestinian. Earlier on Friday, Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal told Anadolu that an Israeli strike hit a bicycle in the al-Sabra neighborhood in the southwest of Gaza City, causing the martyrdom of a Palestinian. Three Palestinians from one family were martyred today, Friday, in an Israeli drone strike that hit a gathering of civilians in the town of al-qararah north of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. A medical source at Nasser Hospital told Anadolu that the bodies of three Palestinians from the same family arrived after an Israeli strike on a civilian gathering near the Al-Mat-hin intersection in al-qararah. Eyewitnesses and local sources told Anadolu Agency that the martyrs were two brothers and their cousin from the Abdeen family, and added that an Israeli drone struck them while they stood in front of their home in the town, causing their martyrdom. In the central Gaza Strip, a Palestinian was seriously injured by gunfire from Israeli vehicles east of Deir al-Balah, according to a medical source at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. Meanwhile, Israeli vehicles fired heavily to the south of Khan Younis, and Israeli warships fired toward the coast of the city, with no injuries reported. Israel continues to violate the current ceasefire in place since October 10, 2025, targeting various areas in Gaza. Casualties and injuries Yesterday, Thursday, four Palestinians were martyred and others were injured in attacks on the city of Gaza in the northern part of the Strip and the Khan Younis Governorate in the south, where the Israeli army targeted two refugee tents, a bicycle, and a roof of a house. One Palestinian was martyred and others, including a child, were injured when an Israeli drone hit a tent sheltering refugees near Anwar Roundabout in western Gaza City. Another Palestinian was martyred and others injured when a drone strike hit a Palestinian on a bicycle near the Industrial area junction in Gaza City. Earlier on Thursday, a Palestinian was critically injured by a drone strike on the roof of a house in the Shati Camp in western Gaza City, before later dying of wounds. In the Khan Younis Governorate, a Palestinian was martyred and others were injured by an Israeli strike targeting a refugee tent in the Al-Mawashi area to the west of the city. Israeli artillery also shelled several areas east of Gaza City, in the central Gaza Strip, and east of Khan Younis yesterday. A separate development, the Rafad Force, affiliated with the Resistance’s security in the Gaza Strip, announced it carried out a ambush targeting a group described as “collaborators working for the Israeli occupation” near Mushatta Street in the Shujaiya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, on August 24. The force stated that its members laid an ambush and inflicted injuries on the group before the Israeli army intervened with artillery shelling and air strikes in the area to provide cover for the targeted group and secure its withdrawal. Rafad added that the group withdrew to the area behind what is known as the Yellow Line. The force affirmed that it will continue pursuing what it called “criminal gangs” inside the Strip and working to dismantle and hold accountable those involved, saying it will persist despite what it called difficult field conditions. Since the ceasefire agreement took effect on October 10, 2025, Israeli violations have resulted in 1,303 Palestinians martyred and 4,336 others injured. The total toll of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023 has reached about 73,438 martyred and 174,447 injured up to Wednesday, according to the Strip’s Ministry of Health.

A Palestinian and his daughter were martyred today, Sunday, in an Israeli strike that targeted a car in the Al-Nasr neighborhood of Gaza City, as Israeli attacks hit various areas of the Gaza Strip and left 15 people injured. Palestinian sources confirmed the martyrdom of young man Youssef Akaila and his daughter Wafa in a drone attack on a car in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, in addition to other injuries. Israeli media claimed that the army killed the so‑called 'military commander' of Hamas in the western part of Gaza City. The attack comes as violations by the occupation continue against the truce that has been in effect in the Gaza Strip since October. Since the morning on Sunday, 15 Palestinians have been injured in Israeli attacks distributed between firing on tents of displaced people in Khan Younis in the south, airstrikes on a commercial building and a gathering of civilians in Gaza City in the north, in parallel with Israeli military vehicles penetrating and artillery shelling around Deir al-Balah in the center of the Strip. Four Palestinians were injured by a drone strike that targeted a gathering of civilians at the Al-Shati refugee camp on the western edge of Gaza City. A medical source at Al Shifa Hospital reported four injured, one in critical condition, after an airstrike by an Israeli drone that targeted a gathering of civilians at Al-Shati. Earlier on Sunday, Israeli warplanes carried out two airstrikes on a vacant commercial building near what is known as the 'Yellow Line' in the Al-Tuffah district northeast of Gaza City, injuring nine people. The Yellow Line is the line of Israeli army movement inside the Gaza Strip under the ceasefire agreement, but Israel later expanded its control to include areas estimated at about 70% of the Strip. In Deir al-Balah in the center of the Strip, local sources told Anadolu Agency that Israeli military vehicles penetrated tens of meters along the Yellow Line in the Abu al-Ajin and Wadi al-Saqa areas southeast of Deir al-Balah. By Sunday, Israeli violations of the ceasefire had resulted in 1,344 Palestinians martyred and 4,481 others injured, according to data from the Gaza Strip Ministry of Health.

An emergency and ambulance source said two Palestinians were martyred and others were injured today, Monday, in a drone airstrike by an Israeli aircraft on central Gaza City, while five Palestinian fishermen were injured by Israeli naval fire off the coast of the city, as part of ongoing violations of the ceasefire. The Palestinian Red Crescent said in a statement that its crews transported five injured fishermen from the Gaza City port area to al-Shifa Hospital and the Salhiya field hospital after being shot at by Israeli gunboats. A Reuters correspondent quoted witnesses as saying Israeli gunboats fired at fishing boats off the coast of Gaza City, causing injuries. Gaza fishermen face restrictions on access to the sea, and a UN report released on July 2 last year stated that the Israeli navy continued to prevent Palestinians from reaching the sea despite the ceasefire. Ongoing violations. In the southern Gaza Strip, local sources said Israeli military vehicles and drones fired heavily at homes in Hamad City, north of Khan Younis, with no reports of injuries. Israeli vehicles also fired heavily east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, in conjunction with shelling to the east of the central governorate. The fishermen’s injuries come after a series of Israeli attacks in recent days that left dozens of Palestinians martyred in various parts of the Gaza Strip, including children. Since the ceasefire went into effect on October 10, 2025, Israeli violations have left 1,318 Palestinians martyred and 4,375 others injured, while rescue teams retrieved hundreds of bodies from under the rubble. By Sunday, the toll of Palestinian martyrs in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 reached about 73,454, in addition to 174,486 injured, according to the Strip’s health ministry.

Five Palestinians were martyred and several others were injured early Monday as Israeli airstrikes hit various areas in the Gaza Strip, according to medical sources. Medical sources at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital reported the martyrdom of a child and injuries to others from an Israeli strike that targeted a school housing displaced people in the middle of the Gaza Strip. Medical sources at Al-Shifa Hospital also announced the martyrdom of four Palestinians and injuries to others following an Israeli raid that targeted the Ramla neighborhood in western Gaza. Yesterday, Sunday, a Palestinian and his daughter were martyred when an Israeli bombardment targeted a car in the al-Nasr neighborhood of Gaza City. Gaza residents, on Saturday, carried the bodies of about 100 martyrs, including 60 children, whose remains were recovered from the rubble of destroyed houses in the Old Town (Hay al-Zeitoun) area, nearly three years after their martyrdom. The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement the Trump plan to end the war, which includes Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the demilitarization of the movement. Health ministry officials in the Gaza Strip reported the martyrdom of more than 1,300 Palestinians, most of them civilians, since the ceasefire agreement went into effect in October 2025. According to the latest data from the health ministry in the Gaza Strip, Israeli violations of the ceasefire have resulted in 1,344 Palestinians martyred and 4,464 others injured up to the day before yesterday.

Four Palestinians were martyred, including two children, and others injured today in Israeli attacks on the northern and southern Gaza Strip. Al-Shifa Hospital said it received the bodies of four martyrs from the Ahmed family after they were found as fragments following an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, noting that among the victims were two girls aged 8 and 12. The Israeli army, in response to a question from Agence France-Presse, said it is looking into the incident. A Palestinian security source in Gaza said Israeli aircraft carried out two airstrikes after midnight on Beit Lahia and Jabalia Camp in the northern Gaza Strip, adding that Israeli forces also bombed displaced persons’ tents and ambulance vehicles. In the southern Gaza Strip, a source in the ambulance and emergency service reported injuries from a drone strike by Israel on the Khan Yunis camp. Israeli statement In a separate development, the Israeli army and the Shin Bet said they destroyed three weapons depots yesterday that they claimed belonged to Hamas in three different areas of the Gaza Strip. The army and Shin Bet said the depots contained weapons, improvised explosive devices, anti-tank missiles, and other combat equipment, adding that the army will continue to work on reducing Hamas’s military capabilities and preventing attempts to rebuild. These attacks come amid ongoing Israeli violations of the ceasefire in Gaza that has been in effect since October 10, 2025. The Gaza Ministry of Health had announced yesterday that 1,358 Palestinians had been martyred and 4,541 others wounded due to Israeli violations of the agreement.

Health officials in Gaza said two Israeli airstrikes killed at least five Palestinians in the enclave on Monday. Paramedics said two people were killed and several others were injured when an Israeli airstrike hit a crowd near the Municipality Park in Gaza City, a densely populated area that houses displaced families. The Israeli army said it targeted members of Hamas and did not provide further details. Later in the day, medics said an Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood west of Gaza City, killing at least three people. There has been no comment yet from the Israeli army on the incident. The ceasefire reached in October 2025, backed by the United States, has stopped large-scale fighting in the devastated Gaza Strip but has not ended Israeli army attacks. Gaza health officials say more than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect in October. Paramedics said two people were killed and several others were injured when an Israeli airstrike hit a crowd near the Municipality Park in Gaza City, a densely populated area housing displaced families. The Israeli army said it targeted Hamas members and did not provide further details. Later in the day, medics said an Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood west of Gaza City, killing at least three people. There has been no comment yet from the Israeli army on the incident. The ceasefire reached in October 2025, backed by the United States, has halted large-scale hostilities in the devastated territory, but it has not brought an end to Israeli army attacks. Gaza health officials say more than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect in October.

Israeli strike kills two people including a 3-year-old boy, Gaza medics say CAIRO, Aug 30 (Reuters) - An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials said. Gaza medics said the Israeli airstrike near a bakery in Deir Al-Balah killed one man, Hussam Nusair, a three-year-old boy, Tayyem Hamdan, and wounded several others. The Israeli military said it attacked and killed a Hamas militant. It said that Nusair advanced attacks against Israeli forces and civilians. Hamas did not immediately comment on the military's allegation. An October 2025 U.S.-backed ceasefire halted major fighting in the shattered territory, but it failed to end strikes by the Israeli military, which it said aimed to thwart attacks by Hamas and other Gaza militants. Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement a broader plan by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the Gaza conflict, which also includes Israeli withdrawals and Hamas disarmament. More than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect last October, according to Gazan health officials, while the Israeli military says four Israeli soldiers have been killed. (Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Cairo and Steve Scheer in Jerusalem; Editing by Alexandra Hudson)

Israeli fire kills five people in Gaza, medics say CAIRO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Israeli airstrikes killed at least five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Monday, health officials said. Medics said two people were killed and several others wounded when one strike hit a crowd near the municipal public park in Gaza City, an area packed with displaced families. Later on Monday, another Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle in the Tel Al-Hawa neighbourhood in western Gaza City, killing at least three people, medics added. The Israeli military said the two attacks targeted Hamas militants, without giving further information. At Al Shifa Hospital, the enclave's largest medical facility, relatives and friends paid their last respects to two of the five men killed on Monday before carrying the white-shrouded bodies to the cemetery to bury them. "There is no ceasefire. There is not one good day in Gaza since October 7 (2023)," said Amjad Abu Abdo, a relative of one of the people who died in the first strike on Monday. "I swear, we do not sleep from the sound of drones. You sleep scared of being hit," Abu Abdo added. Hamas-led fighters killed 1,200 people during their cross-border attack into Israel on October 7, 2023, according to Israeli tallies. The Gaza health ministry says Israeli attacks have killed more than 73,000 Palestinians in the enclave since then. An October 2025 U.S.-backed ceasefire halted major fighting in the shattered territory, but it failed to end strikes by the Israeli military which says such actions are aimed at thwarting attacks by Hamas and other Gaza militants. Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement a broader plan by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the Gaza conflict, which also includes Israeli withdrawals and Hamas disarmament. More than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect in October, according to Gazan health officials. The Israeli military says four Israeli soldiers have been killed. (Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Cairo. Additional reporting by Dawoud Abu Alkas in Gaza; Editing by Alex Richardson, Alexandra Hudson and Andrew Heavens)

Israeli strike kills a man and his daughter in Gaza, medics say CAIRO, Sept 6 (Reuters) - An Israeli strike killed a man and his 8-year-old daughter in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials said. Mohamed Abu Selmia, head of Al Shifa Hospital, the enclave's largest medical facility, said the airstrikehit a vehicle in western Gaza City, killing Youssef Akila and his daughter, Wafaa, and wounding six others. An Israeli military spokesperson said forces targeted a Hamas militant and the military was still looking into results of the attack. Later on Sunday, two separate Israeli strikes killed two other people, including a child in Gaza City, medics said. They added that an Israeli strikes killed at least one man near the telecommunication company east of Gaza City while an Israeli tank at a school housing displaced families killed a seven-year-old girl, taking Sunday’s death toll to at least four. An October 2025 U.S.-backed ceasefire halted major fighting in the territory, but it failed to end strikes by the Israeli military, which it said aimed to thwart attacks by Hamas and other Gaza militants. Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement U.S. President Donald Trump's broader plan to end the Gaza conflict, which also includes Israeli withdrawals and Hamas disarmament. More than 1,300 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect last October, according to the territory's health officials, while the Israeli military says four Israeli soldiers have been killed. Hamas does not usually disclose information about fatalities among its fighters. (Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Editing by Tomasz Janowski, Toby Chopra and Nick Zieminski)

Three Palestinians were killed today, Saturday, in scattered Israeli attacks on areas in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian sources, while the Israeli army announced that it targeted a commander in the military wing of Hamas in the central Gaza Strip. Sources in the Gaza City ambulance and emergency services said two Palestinians were killed and others injured when an Israeli airstrike hit an electric bike in Tel al-Hawas neighborhood in the southwest of Gaza City. The sources, per the German news agency, said a drone attacked the bike near the Yajzi bakery, noting that the shelling caused injuries, including some described as serious. In central Gaza, Palestinian sources reported the death of farmer Hamouda Fayiq Al-Attar as a result of a drone strike while he was on his agricultural land east of Deir al-Balah, with his body transferred to Shuhada al-Aqsa hospital. Concurrently, Palestinian sources spoke of Israeli forces penetrating and heavy gunfire in the eastern parts of Deir al-Balah and Al-Masdar village. The sources also reported some Palestinians injured by a drone strike that targeted a tent near the Shuhada al-Aqsa hospital, while others were wounded in an Israeli strike on a gathering of Palestinians in the Al-Tahieh area west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. For its part, the Israeli army announced that it conducted a strike in central Gaza that targeted, it said, a commander of the Hamas military wing in Deir al-Balah. An Israeli army spokesperson said the attack targeted what it described as an “immediate threat,” accusing the target of planning attacks against Israeli forces and civilians, and of hiding near the Shuhada al-Aqsa hospital complex. He added that the operation was carried out using precision munitions after aerial surveillance, with the aim of limiting, he said, damage to civilians. Channel 14 in Israel reported that the army carried out an attempted assassination of the Deir al-Balah Brigade commander affiliated with Hamas using a drone in central Gaza. Later, Palestinian sources reported artillery shelling and Israeli gunfire in several areas, especially the eastern outskirts of Gaza City and Khan Younis, with the shelling focused around the Apple and Al-Shuja’iya neighborhoods. According to Palestinian sources, the number of Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip since predawn today rose to three, whereas five Palestinians had been killed yesterday, Friday, by Israeli attacks on various areas of the Strip.

The Israeli army killed 5 Palestinians in Gaza within 48 hours and injured 27, raising the war toll in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023 to 73,651 victims and 174,575 injured, according to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA). Medical sources in Gaza said the sector’s hospitals received 17 casualties in the past 48 hours, including 5 new deaths and a casualty who died from injuries, in addition to the retrieval of 11 bodies, according to the agency. The sources noted that the total casualties since the truce began on October 11 rose to 1,344, and the number of injuries to 4,464, along with the retrieval of 815 bodies. They explained that 160 victims were added to the cumulative tally after their data were completed and approved in August. The Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip announced on Saturday the retrieval of 55 bodies and remains of Palestinian victims who were missing under the rubble of a building in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood in the southeast of Gaza City, which Israel bombed about two years ago, calling for the provision of equipment and tools necessary to retrieve thousands of bodies and remains from under the rubble. The sources pointed to the continued existence of a number of victims under the rubble and in the streets, amid the failure of rescue and relief crews to reach and retrieve them. The supervisor of the victim exhumation project, Colonel Mohammed Abu Dan, said at a press conference in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza that the relevant agencies retrieved 55 bodies from among 73 people who had sought shelter in a residential building belonging to the 'Malka' family to avoid Israeli airstrikes, before it was hit by an Israeli air raid about two years ago. He noted that these victims are expected to be carried in a single funeral next week. He explained that Civil Defense teams face major challenges in the extraction operations due to the lack of heavy equipment, machinery, and rescue gear, and urged international and humanitarian organizations to intensify their efforts to provide heavy equipment and modern trucks urgently so that crews can extract as many as possible of the thousands of missing bodies and remains beneath the destroyed buildings. According to preliminary figures, Gaza’s Civil Defense says about 10,000 bodies are still missing under the rubble. Since the start of the war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, Israel has prevented the entry of the heavy tools and equipment needed by Civil Defense into the sector, as well as medical devices and equipment. Despite a ceasefire agreement that came into effect in October, the Israeli army continues to conduct airstrikes and artillery and naval shelling on Gaza on a near-regular basis, while its forces control more than 60% of the strip. The Palestinian National Committee for the Management of Gaza, formed by the Peace Council chaired by U.S. President Donald Trump and based in Cairo, is still awaiting Israeli approval to enter Gaza to assume its government responsibilities and implement its relief, recovery, and reconstruction plans for war-torn Gaza.

The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas said on Monday that the fascist escalation of the war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in Gaza is no longer scattered violations, but a continuing war in various forms and a repudiation of the ceasefire agreement. In a statement, the movement explained that the Israeli occupation army has intensified its crimes and assaults on the Gaza Strip, resulting in the martyrdom and injury of a number of Palestinians, the destruction of several homes, shooting at fishermen in the Sea of Gaza City, and targeting civilians in all areas of the enclave. It noted that these attacks represent a deliberately fascist escalation by the Netanyahu regime and a confirmation of its ongoing war of extermination against our people, and its repudiation of its commitments under the ceasefire agreement. It added that what is happening is no longer sporadic violations or isolated incidents, but a systematic policy of aggression and a continuous war in various forms. The movement said that the massacres and brutal daily crimes committed by the Israeli army amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, calling for international, UN, and popular action to isolate the occupation and hold its fascist leaders accountable, and to take measures to protect our unarmed people who still face the danger of extinction and displacement. The movement renewed its call to mediators and guarantors of the ceasefire to assume their responsibilities toward these Zionist crimes against our people, and to act immediately to pressure the occupation government to stop its aggression against our people and to compel it to respect the internationally supervised ceasefire. In this context, the number of Palestinian athletes killed by Israel during the genocide in the Gaza Strip rose to 1,014, including players, coaches, referees, and associates of the Football Association. The toll rose after the martyrdom of Jabalya Services Club player Abdul Fattah Abu al-Aish last Saturday, following an Israeli air strike that targeted an electric bicycle belonging to a private delivery company in the Tel al-Haqqa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City. Mustafa Saim, Secretary-General of the Palestinian Union of Sports Media, told Anadolu Agency that Abu al-Aish was preparing with his team to participate in the “Kiss of a Thousand Martyrs” Cup, scheduled to begin on September 4, organized by the Palestinian Football Association. Saim added that Abu al-Aish’s martyrdom comes amid Israeli strikes ongoing against Palestinian sports, pointing out that 1,014 athletes have been killed by Israel during the genocide in Gaza, including players, coaches, referees, and members of the Palestinian Football Association. He noted that Israeli targeting also hit the Gaza sports infrastructure, destroying fields, clubs, halls, and sports academies, and razing several stadiums and facilities. He indicated that the human losses and damage to facilities placed the Palestinian sports movement before existential challenges. Abu al-Aish plays for Gaza’s Services Club in the Palestinian First Division and previously played briefly for Ahli Beit Hanoun; he played as a defender. The Palestinian sports movement’s losses were not limited to Gaza; Saim said athletes were also martyred in the occupied West Bank, while players, coaches, and administrators were detained. According to the Palestinian Union of Sports Media, Israel destroyed more than 50 clubs out of 56 in the Gaza Strip’s governorates and about 20 five-a-side fields established by the Football Association with support from FIFA. The Israeli assaults on the Gaza Strip come despite US President Donald Trump’s call to halt strikes on the enclave. Since the ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, Israeli violations of the agreement have killed 1,318 Palestinians and wounded 4,375 others, while rescue teams recovered hundreds of bodies from under the rubble. By Sunday, the total number of Palestinians killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 stood at about 73,454, in addition to 174,486 injuries, according to the health ministry in the enclave.

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Israeli attacks across Gaza kill 4 Palestinians, injure 11 Attacks come amid continued Israeli violations of ceasefire agreement in effect since last October Hosni Nedim, Sahin Demir and Rania Abushamala 29 August 2026•Update: 29 August 2026 GAZA CITY, Palestine/ISTANBUL Four Palestinians were killed and 11 others injured on Saturday in Israeli attacks targeting several areas of the Gaza Strip in the latest violation of an ongoing ceasefire, medical sources told Anadolu. In the latest attack, a Palestinian was killed and four others were injured in an Israeli drone strike in central Khan Younis. Separately, two Palestinians were killed and two others wounded in an airstrike targeting an electric bicycle belonging to a private delivery company in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City. Three Palestinians were also injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a medicine warehouse at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza Strip, the sources added. The sources said the three Palestinians were inside the hospital when the strike hit the medicine warehouse. One Palestinian was also killed and another seriously injured by Israeli gunfire targeting farmers as they worked on their farmland east of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, the sources added. Witnesses said an Israeli quadcopter drone opened fire on the victim while he was working on his farmland. In Khan Younis, one person was injured in an Israeli drone strike targeting a person inside a camp for displaced people in the Al-Ard al-Tayyiba area of Al-Mawasi. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, as many as 1,313 Palestinians have been killed and 4,361 others injured in Israeli violations since the truce last October. Overall, Israel’s war on Gaza since October 2023 has killed at least 73,449 people, and injured 174,472 others. Israeli attacks across Gaza kill 4 Palestinians, injure 11

5 Palestinians killed, several others injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza Residential building, vehicle and fishermen’s boats targeted in Gaza City, medical sources tell Anadolu Ramzi Mahmud, Serdar Dincel and Mohammad Sio 31 August 2026•Update: 31 August 2026 GAZA CITY, Palestine/ISTANBUL Five Palestinians were killed and several others injured Monday in Israeli attacks in various parts of the Gaza Strip, amid the Israeli army's continued violations of a ceasefire agreement in place since October 2025. Three Palestinians were killed and several others injured when an Israeli drone struck a civilian vehicle in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood of southern Gaza City, a medical source told Anadolu. Their bodies were taken to Al-Shifa Hospital. Earlier Monday, two Palestinians were killed and others injured when an Israeli drone strike targeted the entrance of a residential building near Gaza Municipality Park in central Gaza City, a medical source told Anadolu. In another incident, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement that its crews transported five fishermen injured by fire from Israeli warboats off the coast of Gaza City to Al-Shifa Hospital and Al-Saraya Field Hospital. Israeli warboats opened fire and shelled fishermen’s boats while they were working off the coast of Gaza City, injuring several of them, witnesses told Anadolu. In northern Gaza, a medical source at Al-Shifa Hospital said a 16-year-old male was wounded after an Israeli drone dropped a bomb in Beit Lahia. In Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, three Palestinians were injured by gunfire and a bomb dropped by an Israeli drone in the Hamad and Western Satr areas, according to medical sources who spoke to Anadolu. Local sources and witnesses also told Anadolu that Israeli military vehicles and drones opened heavy fire toward homes in Hamad residential city, injuring two Palestinians. The Palestinian Civil Defense said in a brief statement that its crews extinguished a fire that broke out in two tents housing displaced people in the Hamad area after Israeli forces opened fire on the area. In Western Satr, a Palestinian was injured by shrapnel from a bomb dropped by an Israeli drone. In central Gaza, a Palestinian woman was critically injured after Israeli military vehicles opened heavy fire east of Deir al-Balah, amid artillery shelling around the area, according to medical and local sources. Local sources also said the Israeli army carried out demolitions of buildings and facilities in areas under its control east of Deir al-Balah. The Israeli attacks came despite US President Donald Trump’s call to halt strikes on the Gaza Strip. In an interview with US broadcaster Fox News on Aug. 17, Trump said Israel should not be carrying out strikes on Gaza. Since the ceasefire agreement took effect on Oct. 10, 2025, Tel Aviv's violations of the deal have killed 1,318 Palestinians and injured 4,375 others, while rescue teams have recovered hundreds of bodies from under the rubble. As of Sunday, the number of Palestinians killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 had reached about 73,454, with 174,486 others injured, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.

The shelling targeted the area of the 'Battalion', according to medical sources and eyewitnesses to Anadolu Agency. Hosni Nedim, Ramzi Mahmud September 1, 2026 • Updated: September 1, 2026 Archive GAZA Gaza/ Hosni Nedim, Ramzi Mahmud / Anadolu Agency Three Palestinians were killed and more than 20 others injured, including children, on Tuesday in the initial toll of intensive Israeli airstrikes on the area of the 'Battalion' to the west of Gaza City, the fiercest attack of its kind since the ceasefire in the sector took effect late last year. Medical sources to Anadolu Agency said that 3 martyrs and more than 20 wounded arrived at Gaza City hospitals following a series of Israeli strikes to the west of the city moments ago. Earlier, it was reported that ambulances and medical crews could not reach the area of the Israeli strikes due to ongoing shelling. Witnesses to Anadolu Agency said a martyr and several injuries arrived at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, including 3 children, with injuries described as moderate to serious. Witnesses noted intense overflight of Israeli fighter jets and drones to the west of Gaza City and heard explosion sounds. They confirmed the targeting of two cars in the streets surrounding the area, where efforts were underway to recover bodies from inside them. They added that Israeli jets launched more than 16 sudden and consecutive strikes in less than half an hour on the 'Battalion' area. They reported that several families and citizens were besieged in homes and shops due to the ongoing intensive bombardment. The Anadolu Agency correspondent noted that some drone attacks targeted vehicles and individuals, while drones from Quad Copter dropped several bombs in the area. Witnesses and local sources said that 'gunfire sounds were heard in the area followed by intensive shelling from Israeli drones, while Israeli fighter jets and helicopters flew at low altitudes.' Shortly before, they reported hearing very loud explosion sounds due to a series of Israeli strikes to the west of Gaza City, causing injuries. The area is densely populated with displaced people and includes the American Hospital, universities, and shops, making it a target-rich zone that endangers civilians. The attack triggered fear and terror among residents and the displaced in the tents in the area and its surroundings. For its part, the Israeli army said it attacked "a number of targets" in Gaza City to "remove threats" to its forces. In its first response to the heavy attacks, it denied casualties among its own forces. Since the ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, Israeli violations of the agreement have killed 1,318 Palestinians and injured 4,375 others, while rescue teams have recovered hundreds of bodies from under the rubble. Meanwhile, the official Kan channel reported: "In the Israeli army, they refuse to answer whether the threat is directed at army forces or at members of the militias operating for Israel in Gaza." As of Sunday, the toll of Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023 stood at about 73,454, along with 174,486 injured, according to the health ministry in the territory.

Israeli attacks across Gaza kill 5 Palestinians, including 2 children Several wounded in Israeli strikes on Gaza City and Deir al-Balah Tarek Chouiref 07 September 2026•Update: 07 September 2026 ISTANBUL Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip killed five Palestinians, including two children, in the past 24 hours, medical sources told Anadolu on Sunday. In the latest attack, Israeli artillery struck a classroom sheltering displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, killing a 7-year-old child. Earlier, Israeli forces targeted Palestinians in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, killing two. An Israeli drone also struck a civilian vehicle in Gaza City earlier Sunday, killing Palestinian Youssef Aqila and his 9-year-old daughter Wafaa. Wafaa had started the new school year earlier that day, with images circulated after the attack showing her schoolbooks and supplies scattered at the scene. Several Palestinians were wounded in separate Israeli attacks in the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City and the Shati refugee camp west of the city. Four of the injured were taken to Al-Shifa Medical Complex. At dawn Sunday, Israeli fighter jets carried out two airstrikes on an evacuated commercial building near the “yellow line” in the Tuffah neighborhood. The strikes destroyed the former Al-Sakhra commercial complex and injured nine Palestinians, including residents and displaced people staying nearby, according to medical sources. Israeli reconnaissance drones also continued to fly intensively at low altitude over much of the western Gaza Strip. The attacks marked the latest Israeli violations of a ceasefire agreement in effect in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 10, 2025. Israeli violations of the agreement have resulted in the deaths of 1,344 Palestinians and injuries to 4,464 others, according to the latest figures from Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Israeli army has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians and injured over 174,000 in a brutal war that has destroyed or damaged much of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure. Israeli attacks across Gaza kill 5 Palestinians, including 2 children

Child among 2 Palestinians killed in Israeli strike in Gaza despite ceasefire Strike hits car in Al-Nasr neighborhood, west of Gaza City, medical source told Anadolu Ramzi Mahmud and Rania Abushamala 06 September 2026•Update: 06 September 2026 GAZA CITY, Palestine / ISTANBUL Two Palestinians, including a child, were killed Sunday in an Israeli strike targeting a car in Gaza City, in the latest violation of an ongoing ceasefire, a medical source said. An Israeli drone struck the vehicle in the Al-Nasr neighborhood, west of Gaza City, the source, who requested anonymity, told Anadolu. The attack was the latest Israeli violation of the ceasefire agreement in effect in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 10, 2025. Israeli violations of the agreement have killed 1,344 Palestinians and injured 4,464 others, according to the latest figures from Gaza’s Health Ministry. The Israeli army has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians and injured over 174,000 in a brutal war that has destroyed or damaged much of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure.

The army, in a statement, said Siraj was responsible for supplying members of the movement with weapons inside the Gaza City, adding that the attack also targeted another member of Hamas’s military wing. The Israeli army claimed that the targets had recently participated in planning attacks against Israeli forces and Israeli civilians, in addition to efforts to rebuild the movement’s capabilities, and considered these activities a violation of the ceasefire agreement. In contrast, officials in the Gaza health sector reported at least 5 Palestinians killed in two Israeli airstrikes that occurred during the day. Medics said two people were killed and others were injured by an airstrike that targeted a gathering of civilians near the Municipality Park in Gaza City, a densely populated area that includes displaced families. Later, an Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle in the Tel el-Hawa neighborhood west of Gaza City, which, according to medics, resulted in the death of at least 3 people. These developments come amid ongoing frontline tensions despite the ceasefire, with mutual accusations between Israel and Hamas over violations of the agreement.

Five Palestinians were killed in two Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip today, Monday, according to medical sources and civil defense, while the Israeli army said it targeted “elements in the military wing of Hamas.” Gaza Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Basal told Agence France-Presse: “Three martyred bodies, charred remains, and a number of injuries were carried by passersby as a result of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a civilian vehicle in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood,” in southwest Gaza City. He noted that the vehicle had burned completely after being hit by two missiles fired by an Israeli drone. A source at the emergency and reception department of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza told AFP that the bodies of the three killed and “eight injured, including two seriously,” had arrived. The source explained that “the three martyrs are Barra’ al-Rubi (35), Talal Badawi (38), and Mu’men al-Hawari (34),” all residents of Gaza City. Earlier, in the early hours of the morning, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the city of Gaza, according to Civil Defense. Basal noted that “two civilians were martyred in an Israeli strike that hit the entrance of a residential building near the Municipality Park” in the al-Daraj district in central Gaza City. In response to a question from AFP, the Israeli army said it struck in the two airstrikes “elements in the Hamas military wing,” the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades. Later, the army stated that one of the dead was Omar Mohammed Rushdi Siraj, noting that he was supplying Hamas with weapons. In a statement, the army said it targeted the militants to eliminate the threat they pose. Despite the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel that went into effect in October last year, the Israeli Air Force and artillery strikes continue relatively regularly in the devastated Gaza Strip. Israeli forces control more than 60% of the impoverished and destroyed territory, home to more than two million people, the majority of whom are displaced. The Israeli operations in Gaza have killed at least 1,318 Palestinians since the fragile truce began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, run by Hamas, and whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations. In the same period, the Israeli army announced the deaths of five of its own personnel, in addition to the death of one civilian contractor.

Israeli airstrikes on Monday killed at least five Palestinians in Gaza City, hospital officials said. One strike hit the entrance of a residential building near the city’s municipal park, and killed two Palestinians, according to Shifa Hospital, which received the casualties. A second strike hit a vehicle in the city’s Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, killing three Palestinians, Shifa hospital said. 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A Palestinian civilian was killed today (Saturday) by Israeli forces’ gunfire, in parallel with shelling and shooting in several areas of the Gaza Strip, according to the German News Agency (dpa). The Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) said that the Israeli forces’ gunfire has been ongoing since morning in the al-Masdar village in the central Gaza Strip and in the streets of the Maghazi refugee camp adjacent to it. Al-Aqsa TV quoted local sources as saying that a gunshot injury reached the Shifa Medical Complex due to Israeli fire from excavators belonging to the occupation forces east of Gaza City. The warplanes conducted at least one airstrike in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital, north of the Gaza Strip, and artillery shelled the eastern areas of Gaza City during the early hours of the predawn, in parallel with Israeli military vehicles firing toward the city’s eastern areas and targeting the Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City, with gunfire. Local residents in the southern Gaza Strip said that occupation tanks unleashed heavy fire toward the Batin al-Samin area, south of Khan Younis, and also targeted the eastern parts of the city with another volley of gunfire in the morning. In Rafah in the southern sector, Israeli war helicopters fired toward the city, while Israeli unmanned aircraft flew at a low altitude over the areas of Mowasi and Khan Younis.

Deaths and injuries in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, and families of those missing say: "Our loved ones are not numbers" Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that an Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians on Sunday, one of them a three-year-old child, in the central Gaza Strip. Medics said the strike occurred near a bakery in the city of Deir al-Balah, resulting in the death of a man named Hossam Nassir and a boy named Tim Hamdan, in addition to several others being injured. In contrast, the Israeli army said it targeted a Hamas fighter and managed to kill him. It added that Nassir was involved in attacks on Israeli forces and on civilians. There has been no immediate comment from Hamas on what the Israeli army said. Civil Defense in Gaza had reported on Saturday the death of four people in Israeli airstrikes across different parts of the enclave. The Health Ministry in Gaza explained that since the start of the ceasefire brokered by the United States in October last year, the total number of deaths in Gaza has reached 1,318, with 4,375 injuries and 815 rescue operations. The Israeli army says four of its soldiers have been killed since then. Thus, the total number of victims in Gaza since the war began on October 7, 2023 has risen to 73,454 killed and 174,486 injured across the enclave, according to figures from the Health Ministry of the Palestinian territory. The Israeli military continues its strikes on the Gaza Strip, and its forces persist in advancing in various areas there despite the ceasefire, with Israel insisting on eliminating the threats posed by Hamas and other armed groups. Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement a broader plan proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the Gaza war, which also includes the withdrawal of Israeli forces and the disarming of Hamas. "The missing are not numbers" On Sunday, the families of the missing in Gaza organized a protest in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross headquarters in Gaza City, in conjunction with the World Missing Persons Day, under the slogan "The missing are not numbers." World Missing Persons Day (or the International Day of the Victims of Forced Disappearances), observed on August 30 each year, highlights the fate of individuals who disappeared or were imprisoned under mysterious circumstances due to conflicts, wars, natural disasters, or migration. Participants in the protest urged the international community, humanitarian and human rights organizations to take urgent action and pressure the Israeli side to disclose the fate of their missing loved ones since the war in Gaza began, noting that thousands of families still live in fear and waiting, with no information about their relatives. Some of these people spoke to BBC’s Middle East Diary program. One participant said: "I am the mother of Alaa al-Din Jamal al-Najjar, who has been missing since October 27, 2024. He left home to buy me some bread for iftar. He was my only son, and I have no one else. He was only 14 years old." "He left home around eight in the morning. The situation was extremely dangerous at the time, with heavy bombardment and clashes." "Since that day, my son left the house, and to this day I have no idea what happened to him." Adopted Abdulaziz al-Tarfawi, whose nephew Ali Abdul Rahim al-Tarfawi disappeared: "Ali has been missing since November 7, 2023, about a month after the war began." "We were leaving the area between al-Nasr and the beach, and Ali had gone ahead to escort his mother to a safe place. He didn’t return. Where is Ali? He never came back. We searched everywhere." "We spent days searching among the bodies of those killed and the wounded, but we could not find Ali. We asked everyone we could reach. After the ceasefire, we searched the streets for his body, but found nothing." A third woman told BBC: "I am the mother of the missing child Akram Mohammed Abu Tuyour. Akram has been missing for a year and a month and is 13 years old." "We had been displaced from Rafah, and Akram returned to the home we were living in to fetch some belongings. His cousins remained there until after noon. Later I asked them, isn’t Akram with you? They told me that a tank had taken Akram away, along with a group of other youths." Mohammed Saleh, the general coordinator of the Palestinian NGO Network, says organizing this event aims to stand with the families of the missing and emphasize their right to know what happened to their loved ones. He notes that the network has contacted relevant agencies and organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross and UN agencies, to press the Israeli authorities to provide information about the missing people. He adds: "There are more than 11,000 missing people in Gaza, about 70 percent of whom are children and women, and not all cases of missing persons have yet been documented."

Development in the Middle East August 30, 2026 | 14:58 Cadena 3 Editorial The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a call to Muslim nations to stay united in the face of the challenges posed by the United States and Israel, urging them to “know their true enemy.” Meanwhile, a monitoring body reported that a oil tanker was struck on Saturday in the Strait of Hormuz. The Israeli security agency Shin Bet said it evacuated Yair Netanyahu, the prime minister’s eldest son, from the United States after detecting a credible threat. An Israeli airstrike in Gaza also resulted in the deaths of at least two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, according to local authorities. Ayatollah Khamenei emphasized in his message that it is vital for governments of Muslim countries to understand their adversaries’ plans and confront them. In his view, the United States and Israel are common enemies of all Muslim nations, as reported by the official IRNA agency. Six months after the start of the war between the United States and Israel against Iran, which included attacks on Iranian officials, Khamenei has kept a low profile and has not appeared in public. His statements were conveyed in a letter to religious leaders at a conference held in Tehran. The war has exposed divisions in the Muslim world, especially after Iran attacked targets in neighboring nations and restricted navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, opposing the U.S. military presence in the region. Shin Bet confirmed the evacuation of Yair Netanyahu due to a concrete threat against him, though it offered no additional details. The Israeli prime minister had mentioned that Iran attempted to assassinate one of his sons, though his office did not comment on it. Since moving to Miami in 2023, Yair has spent most of his time outside Israel while his father deals with conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. He often acts as an unofficial advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu, though he has been criticized for his comments on social media. A report from the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center indicated that an unknown projectile struck an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. The vessel, which was heading inland, reported no casualties or environmental damage, according to unidentified military authorities. An Israeli attack in Gaza left two dead, including a child, and another Palestinian injured. The Gaza Health Ministry reported that more than 1,318 Palestinians have died in Israeli attacks since the start of the war with Hamas. In the West Bank, Israeli settlers attacked a NBC crew while they were covering the testimony of a Palestinian woman. Correspondent Matt Bradley and other crew members sustained injuries and required medical care. The Turkish government announced it would host senior officials from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to discuss a recently signed defense agreement, which stipulates that any attack on one of them will be considered an attack on all three. What did the Supreme Leader of Iran do? He called on Muslim nations to unite against the US and Israel. Who was evacuated from the United States? Yair Netanyahu, son of the Israeli prime minister, due to a threat. What happened in the Strait of Hormuz? An oil tanker was struck by an unknown projectile. How many Palestinians have died in Gaza? More than 1,318 Palestinians since the start of the war with Hamas. What will be discussed at the meeting between Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan? A mutual defense agreement among the three countries. [Source: AP] You may be interested Consequences of the conflict on the economy Six months into the conflict in Iran, the global economic landscape shows surprises. Learn who has benefited and who has suffered the most severe consequences. War in Iran Six months after the start of the war, Iran remains standing and the United States is shifting pressure from the military ground to the economic sphere. The promise of a brief campaign is increasingly looking like a war of attrition. Operation in the Sierra Nevada A rescue mission of more than 15 hours managed to save a climber stranded on a ledge in the Sierra Nevada, California. The rescue team highlighted the mountaineer’s resilience in staying safe. Naval deployment in Asia The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln passed by Singapore on its way home after a prolonged deployment in the Middle East, amid reports of mental health issues and shortages of supplies.

Conflicts and alliances in the region August 31, 2026 | 12:07 Editorial Team Cadena 3 An Iranian drone was intercepted on Monday morning over the waters of the United Arab Emirates, according to the country’s Ministry of Defense. This attack followed a weekend exchange of fire between Iran and the United States, marking the first significant military action in the conflict in more than a month. In this context, the latest developments in the war with Iran and in the broader Middle East are concerning: - Iran’s attack on the United Arab Emirates was thwarted on Monday when the drone was intercepted over UAE territorial waters, according to the Emirati Ministry of Defense. - After more than a month without significant fighting, the United States launched an attack on a rocket launcher on an Iranian island on Sunday, claiming that they were preparing to place mines in the Strait of Hormuz. In response, Iran fired missiles at U.S. sites in Jordan, all of which were intercepted. - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated that his nation does not seek war, but will “respond decisively to the aggressors.” The United Arab Emirates called the attack a “dangerous escalation” by Iran. During this period of calm, the United States has intensified economic pressure on Iran, seeking to force Teheran to make concessions, including reopening the crucial Strait of Hormuz for navigation. On the same day, Israeli airstrikes killed at least five Palestinians in Gaza City, according to hospital officials. The Shifa Hospital, which treated the victims, reported that an attack hit the entrance of a residential building near a municipal park, causing two deaths, while two other Palestinians were severely injured. A second attack struck a vehicle in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, leaving three dead, according to the hospital. The Israeli army claimed the strike targeted alleged militants in the vehicle, though no evidence was presented. It did not comment on the first attack. These are the latest deaths in Gaza since a ceasefire agreement reached in October attempted to end more than two years of conflict between Israel and Hamas. Although deaths have fallen since then, the Health Ministry reports that at least 1,320 people have died from Israeli fire in Gaza. Separately, leaders of China, Russia, and India gathered in Kyrgyzstan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, a bloc pitched as a counterweight to U.S. influence. Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the summit, while U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen led meetings of the G20 finance ministers. Additionally, Israel signed a defense agreement worth €3.0 billion ($3.5 billion) with Greece, the largest arms deal between the two countries as Israeli defense exports reach record levels. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu announced that the defense pact signed by Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia is open to new members. The alliance, agreed on August 7, provides that an attack on one member will be considered an attack on all. Lebanese President Michel Aoun asked Greece for help in implementing an agreement aimed at ending the war with Israel. During meetings in Athens, Aoun stressed the need for a diplomatic rather than military approach to resolve the conflict. Finally, the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is approaching Thailand for a stopover after its prolonged deployment in the Middle East, supporting U.S. efforts in the war with Iran. What happened recently in Gaza? An Israeli airstrike killed five Palestinians in Gaza City. What did the United Arab Emirates do? Intercepted an Iranian drone over its territorial waters. What was Iran’s response? Iran launched missiles at U.S. sites in Jordan in response to the American attack. What agreement did Israel sign? Israel signed a defense agreement worth €3.0 billion with Greece. What did the Lebanese president request? The Lebanese president asked Greece for help in implementing a peace agreement with Israel. [Source: AP] You may be interested Developments in the Middle East Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged Muslim countries to unite against the United States and Israel, while attacks were reported in the region and threats against Israeli figures. Conflict in Gaza Health officials reported that three people were injured and treated at the hospital’s emergency department for minor injuries. Geopolitical tensions in the Middle East Scott Bessent warned of possible sanctions on China for its oil purchases from Tehran. Geopolitical tensions are intensifying amid trade negotiations. Escalation of tensions in the Middle East The United Arab Emirates Air Force intercepted an Iranian drone in its territorial waters. This incident follows weekend exchanges of fire between the United States and Iran.

An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials said. Gaza medics said the strike near a bakery in Deir al-Balah killed Tayyem Hamdan, 3, and a man, Hussam Nusair, and wounded several others. The Israeli military said it attacked and killed a Hamas militant. It said that Nusair advanced attacks against Israeli forces and civilians. Hamas did not immediately comment on the military's allegation. A U.S.-backed ceasefire last October halted major fighting in the shattered territory, but it failed to end strikes by the Israeli military, which it said aimed to thwart attacks by Hamas and other Gaza militants. Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement a broader plan by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the Gaza conflict, which also includes Israeli withdrawals and Hamas disarmament. More than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed ‌in Gaza ⁠since the ceasefire took effect last October, according to Gazan health officials, while the Israeli military says four Israeli soldiers have been killed.

An Iranian drone was intercepted on Monday early in the morning over the territorial waters of the United Arab Emirates, the Ministry of Defense reported. The attack came after a weekend exchange of fire between Iran and the United States, which was the first significant military action in the war in more than a month. Here is a look at the latest developments in the war with Iran and the broader Middle East: UAE intercepts an Iranian drone Iran launched a drone against the United Arab Emirates on Monday, which, according to the Emirati Ministry of Defense, was intercepted over its territorial waters. After more than a month without significant fighting, the United States attacked on Sunday by firing a rocket launcher on an Iranian island, claiming it was preparing to lay mines in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded by launching missiles at American facilities in Jordan, all of which were intercepted. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country did not seek war, but “we will respond decisively to the aggressors.” The United Arab Emirates called the attack a “dangerous escalation” by Iran. During the pause in combat, the United States has been increasing economic pressure on Iran in the hope of forcing Tehran to concede, including reopening the vital Strait of Hormuz for navigation. Israeli air strike kills 5 Palestinians in Gaza Israeli airstrikes killed at least five Palestinians in Gaza City on Monday, according to hospital officials. According to Shifa Hospital, which received the victims, an attack hit the entrance to a residential building near the city’s municipal park and killed two people. The hospital said two other Palestinians were seriously injured. A second attack struck a vehicle in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood of the city, killing three people, the hospital noted. The army said it targeted alleged militiamen in the vehicle, without providing evidence. It did not comment on the first attack. These were the most recent Palestinian deaths in Gaza since a truce deal reached in October attempted to halt a war that has lasted more than two years between Israel and Hamas. Although deaths have since declined, at least 1,320 people have died from Israeli fire in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry. Leaders of China, Russia, and India meet as a counterweight to US influence The leaders of China, Russia, and India gathered with other heads of state in Kyrgyzstan on Monday for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, a group framed as a counterweight to the global influence of the United States. The summit includes Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Pezeshkian was scheduled to meet Putin on the sidelines on Tuesday. Meanwhile, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen was expected to lead meetings of G20 finance ministers in North Carolina on Monday and Tuesday, as Washington pressures other countries to help economically isolate Iran. Israel signs multi-billion weapons deal with Greece Israel signed a multi-billion-dollar weapons deal with Greece on Monday, the largest between the two Mediterranean countries, at a time when Israeli defense exports are surging. Israel’s Defense Ministry said the defense export deal worth 3 billion euros (3.5 billion dollars), dubbed the Achilles Shield, is one of the country’s largest and includes a multilayer air defense system for Greece that uses Israeli technology. The deal comes as Israeli arms exports have reached historic highs, totaling over $19 billion last year, up 30% from 2024, according to official figures. This occurs despite widespread criticism of Israel’s conduct in its wars in Gaza, with the militant group Hezbollah and with Iran. A three-nation defense pact The three countries may join the defense pact signed by Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Monday. The three countries agreed to a defense alliance on August 7 that would treat an attack on one as an attack on all. Fidan noted that the Mecca Defense Alliance would be willing to accept new members after the first meeting of senior officials from the current member states. Egypt has been mentioned as a possible member of the alliance of Muslim-majority states, and Fidan promised close cooperation with “friendly countries.” At Monday’s meeting, Fidan was accompanied by his counterparts from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, as well as the defense minister and the chief of staff of each nation, in the alliance’s strategic, political, and defense committee. Although the alliance aims to bolster collective defense in a manner similar to NATO Article 5, members have stressed that it is not directed at any particular adversary. Lebanon seeks Greece’s help to achieve peace with Israel Lebanese President Michel Aoun asked Greece for help implementing an agreement aimed at ending the war with Israel. During meetings in Athens on Monday, Aoun told Greek President Constantinos Tasoulas and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis that Lebanon has endured long wars and that “its people are tired.” He suggested Greece maintains good relations with both Lebanon and Israel, and could help facilitate the end of decades of conflict. In statements broadcast by local television networks, Aoun referred to the framework deal mediated by the United States between Lebanon and Israel, signed in late June, and said: “We ask Greece to do everything it can to help Lebanon implement the agreement.” In an apparent reference to daily Israeli airstrikes and bombardments despite the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah on June 20, Aoun argued that attempting to resolve the problem by military force will not succeed. He stated that the agreement “must not be implemented by one party alone, but by both.” Mitsotakis told Aoun that “the security of Lebanon and Israel is not a zero-sum objective.” USS Lincoln approaches Thailand for a stopover The US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is approaching Thailand, where it is expected to make a port call after its prolonged deployment in the Middle East. The carrier, with around 5,000 sailors and its escort carrier group, was sailing on Monday toward the Gulf of Thailand, where it was expected to call at the port city of Pattaya. The Lincoln, one of the U.S. Navy’s largest warships, supported American efforts in the war with Iran. Its deployment included an uninterrupted period at sea of more than 250 days. Signed, Clarín Newsletter

At least five people were killed in new Israeli air strikes in the area around Gaza City on Monday, a local hospital and rescuers said. Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said on Monday morning that it had received two bodies "following an Israeli air strike that targeted the entrance of a residential building near the municipal park in Gaza City." Later in the day, the hospital said it received three additional bodies and several wounded "as a result of an Israeli drone strike that targeted a civilian car in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City." The civil defense confirmed the toll of the two strikes. Images shared by the civil defense showed workers inspecting the car targeted in the second strike, completely destroyed and reduced to a blackened shell of warped metal, as a crowd of bystanders gathered around it. Despite a U.S.-backed cease-fire that took effect in October 2025, violence has not halted in the Gaza Strip, with Israel continuing to target Palestinians. Israeli operations in Gaza have killed at least 1,318 people since the cease-fire came into effect, according to the Palestinian territory's health ministry.

Links of interest Sections Services Newsletters Sectors es Three Palestinians from the same family die in an Israeli bombing in Jan Yunis despite the ceasefire agreed for the Gaza Strip. 1 minute Published At least three Palestinians belonging to the same family have died this Friday in a new bombing carried out by the Israeli Army near the city of Jân Yûnīs, in southern Gaza, despite the ceasefire reached in October 2025 to implement the United States’ proposal for the enclave. According to sources consulted by the Palestinian official agency WAFA, the attack hit a group of farmers in the town of Al Qarara, killing three of them. This toll has been corroborated by medical staff at Naser Hospital, according to the newspaper Filastin. The authorities of the Gaza Strip, under the control of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), have stated in their latest report that more than 1,300 Palestinians have died from operations by Israeli forces since the ceasefire with Israel came into effect. They also stressed that since the start of the Israeli offensive after the attacks of October 7, 2023 — which left about 1,200 dead and around 250 kidnapped, according to official tallies — a total of 73,438 deaths and 174,447 wounded have been recorded, although they insisted that there are still bodies under the rubble and in areas under Israeli occupation. Tags: Follow us © 2026 DEMÓCRATA - Parliamentary information media

Heridos cinco pescadores palestinos por disparos israelíes cuando faenaban frente a las costas de la Franja Las autoridades de la Franja de Gaza, bajo el control del Movimiento de Resistencia Islámica (Hamás), han reportado este lunes que la cifra de palestinos fallecidos debido a los ataques israelíes ha alcanzado los 1.320 desde el acuerdo de alto el fuego firmado en octubre de 2025. Este acuerdo fue impulsado para implementar la propuesta estadounidense sobre el futuro del enclave costero. Según un comunicado difundido por el Ministerio de Sanidad de Gaza a través de las redes sociales, en las últimas 24 horas se registraron dos muertes y diez heridos, lo que eleva el total desde el 11 de octubre de 2025 a 1.320 fallecidos y 4.385 heridos. Además, se informó que los equipos de rescate han recuperado 815 cuerpos de las áreas de las que las tropas israelíes se retiraron. Actualmente, estas fuerzas están posicionadas detrás de la llamada 'línea amarilla', que abarca más de la mitad del territorio del enclave palestino, conforme al mencionado acuerdo. Por otro lado, el Ministerio destacó que desde el inicio de la ofensiva israelí, tras los ataques del 7 de octubre de 2023 —que causaron aproximadamente 1.200 muertos y casi 250 secuestrados, según datos oficiales—, el recuento alcanza 73.456 fallecidos y 174.496 heridos. No obstante, subrayaron que aún hay cuerpos atrapados entre los escombros y en zonas bajo control israelí. En las últimas horas, al menos cinco pescadores palestinos han resultado heridos a causa de disparos efectuados por la Armada israelí mientras trabajaban frente a las costas de Gaza. Esta información fue publicada por la agencia palestina de noticias WAFA, aunque hasta el momento el Ejército de Israel no ha emitido ninguna declaración sobre este suceso. Estos hechos se suman a la complicada situación en la región, con una dinámica que sigue generando víctimas y tensiones constantes en el enclave.

SUMMARY GAZA — An Israeli army reconnaissance plane on Sunday afternoon attacked a "civilian vehicle" west of Gaza City, causing the death of an 8-year-old girl and her father, the Al Shifa Hospital reported. The girl, named Wafaa Yousef Nabil Akila, would have turned 9 on November 11; her father, Youssef Nabil Rabah Akila, was 36. Six other people were evacuated to the medical center with injuries, two of whom are in critical condition. According to sources from Al Shifa cited by Efe, the attack was carried out by an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft — aircraft typically equipped with cameras, radars and special sensors to monitor, photograph and gather information about activities on the ground — in the vicinity of the Al Wehda Tower, in the Al Nasr neighborhood, west of Gaza City. EFE contacted the Israeli Army about this incident, but has not provided its version at the moment. According to the Gaza Health Ministry tally, under Hamas, more than 1,330 Gazans have died in Israeli attacks during the ceasefire in the Strip, effectively violated daily by Israel. Since the start of Israel’s offensive following Hamas’s attacks of October 7, 2023, the figure has risen to more than 73,470 fatalities. Separately, last night nine Gazans were also injured in the city of Gaza after being struck by debris from an interceptor missile fired by mistake by Israel at its own army’s fire. According to an Israeli Army press release, an interceptor missile was launched at a “false target that was later identified as fire from the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) stemming from operations conducted in the southern Gaza Strip.”

Cancer Patients in Gaza.. A Receding Treatment and Travel Lists That Extend for Years Approximately 11,000 cancer patients in the Gaza Strip are deprived of a large portion of specialized diagnostic and treatment services, including 4,000 who have referrals for treatment abroad and are waiting to travel. With cancer treatment centers out of service, diagnostic equipment malfunctioning, and essential medicines running out, a large part of the journey to recovery from the malignant disease has become tied to the chance of leaving the Gaza Strip. For some time, Mohammad Turk has been waiting for tests and treatment that he says are not available inside Gaza. Turk suffers from a cancerous tumor and a brain issue that, according to his doctors, affected the optic nerve, and over time his vision in one eye deteriorated. Mohammad says doctors ordered an MRI image for him, in addition to a surgical procedure that needs to be performed outside Gaza, but his travel has not yet occurred. "I want an MRI image, and it’s not available in Gaza. I need surgery, and the surgery isn’t available here," Turk says. "Even the treatments I needed aren’t available, neither in the hospital nor in pharmacies." The Gaza patient says his health deteriorated while waiting. His blood pressure rose repeatedly, and his vision in one eye worsened. Turk’s story is one of thousands in the Gaza strip. On July 21, 2026, the Gaza Health Ministry said there are about 11,000 cancer patients, 4,000 of whom have medical referrals for treatment abroad and are still awaiting travel. The ministry had said in February that some of these patients have been waiting for more than two years. The exact current number of cancer patients in the Strip is not known precisely. The war has affected the ability to diagnose, follow up, and register cases. The World Health Organization notes that more than 2,000 new cases were diagnosed annually in Gaza, including 122 children, based on data from before the war. Cancer Patients in Gaza Between Destroyed Hospitals and Missing Medications The Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital used to be the only cancer treatment center in Gaza. It ceased operations in November 2023 following fuel shortages and extensive damage, and after 16 months, it was destroyed by the Israeli army on March 21, 2025. The army justified the destruction by saying the facility was used for military purposes at the site. Independent verification of this claim was not possible. About two months after that date, Gaza European Hospital was attacked on May 13, 2025 and also ceased operations. This health facility provided specialized services not easily available at other facilities, including cancer treatment, neurosurgery, and cardiac care. Regarding the shortage of treatment resources in Gaza, the Health Ministry on August 3 noted that cancer and blood disease medications top the list of pharmaceutical shortages in the sector at 61%. Overall pharmaceutical shortages stood at 47%, hospital consumables at 58%, and shortages in laboratory reagents at 85%. Earlier, the ministry said some chemotherapy drugs and supportive medications had run out completely, and that breast cancer, colon and rectal cancer, digestive system cancer, head and neck cancers, and soft tissue tumors treatment protocols had all stopped, and chemotherapy wards could no longer accept new breast cancer patients. The shortage also includes immune-supporting injections that some patients need after chemotherapy, as well as analgesics and palliative care drugs. In February, the ministry said essential diagnostic and monitoring devices, including MRI and mammography, were not available, making diagnosis and tracking disease progression even harder. Bodies Exhausted by Illness and Waiting This crisis is clearly illustrated by the experience of Almaza Abu Hana. Ms. Abu Hana has breast cancer. She says she first underwent surgery at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, then received radiotherapy and chemotherapy outside the Strip, only to later discover that the disease had reached lower-back vertebrae. About a month before the war, the patient traveled to Nablus in the West Bank for tests and to monitor her condition. She now carries a new referral for treatment outside Gaza but is still waiting. Almaza says the pain has become so severe that she sometimes cannot sleep at night, and some analgesics are hard to come by. "I don’t sleep at night from the pain. My back is like fire," the patient says, "I have a referral, and all I want is to go to any country where I can be treated and return." Delayed cancer treatment does not always mean delaying a scheduled appointment that can be made up later. Chemotherapy and other oncology protocols rely on cycles and appointments tied to the tumor type, stage, and patient response. When a drug is cut off or tests fail, it becomes difficult for doctors to monitor the patient’s response or adjust the treatment plan in a timely manner. And not all cancer services were available in Gaza even before the war. Many patients relied on referrals to hospitals outside the Strip for radiotherapy, some surgeries, and specialized tests. But the war increased the need for external treatment and, at the same time, made access to it more complicated. Thousands of patients waiting for treatment outside Gaza The World Health Organization explains that obtaining a medical referral is only the start of the evacuation process. A doctor at a public hospital issues a referral for treatment abroad, after which the referral committee reviews and prioritizes the case. Approved cases are sent to the WHO, which coordinates with countries able to accept patients. If a country agrees to accept the patient, the patient and his or her companions’ names are sent to Israeli authorities for security clearance before arranging the exit. The WHO explicitly notes that the referral does not guarantee evacuation, and the process also depends on whether a receiving country accepts, security approvals, and access to border crossings, and there is no fixed timeline for completing the process. On June 17, Health Ministry said that 36 scans have been sent since February 2026 for about 3,000 cases still awaiting travel approvals, noting that responses do not arrive in the order in which scans were sent, lengthening waiting periods. As for the number of patients needing external treatment for all diseases and injuries, it continues to rise. The WHO estimated at the end of December 2025 that about 18,500 patients needed urgent evacuation. And on August 12, 2026, the head of Medical Relief Foundation in Gaza, Mohammed Abu Afash, said the number had surpassed 21,800 patients and injured needing specialized treatment or surgery outside the Strip. This figure is an estimate from Medical Relief and not a recent tally published by the WHO. In contrast, the latest figure announced by the UN agency indicates that 12,913 patients left Gaza for medical evacuation from October 2023 to August 11, 2026, including 6,186 children, accompanied by about 16,000 others. WHO 2025 figures show the gap between need and actual evacuation. In that year, 2,714 patients were evacuated across 119 missions to more than 25 countries, including 647 cancer patients. The latter figure is from WHO’s annual evacuation dashboard, not a separate estimate. Illness does not wait for procedures to be completed Mohammad Al-Bashliki is one of the patients whose treatment journey turned into a long sequence of hospital reviews and medicine searches. His wife says his suffering began with difficulty urinating and defecating and recurring pains, and that she spent about a year moving him between different hospitals before diagnosing the disease. She adds that the diagnosis came after a clearly detectable lump appeared and a biopsy was performed at Kuwait Specialized Hospital. Al-Bashliki then began chemotherapy. His wife says the disease spread to areas in the pelvis and urinary and reproductive system, and he now suffers from frequent bleeding, difficulty urinating and defecating, as well as severe weakness and a lack of appetite. A few days ago, she says, she had to call an ambulance after his condition deteriorated and he could not urinate or defecate. On another night, he had severe trouble breathing. When Mohammad returns home, another problem arises: medicine shortages. His wife says, "I go to collect the medicines and I always find one drug not available." She adds that some medicines he needs for his stomach and for pain relief, along with a special medical milk, are not regularly available. The wife tries to provide fruit and some foods Mohammad can eat due to his poor appetite and low hemoglobin, but she says the family has become dependent on borrowing to cover part of these needs. "I suffer in the medicines, I suffer in the pain, I suffer in everything," the speaker says with sorrow, and her only hope is that he finds something that eases his suffering: "What I wish for is to go abroad for treatment and return in good health to his daughters." Death toll keeps rising: 3 cancer patients die every day in Gaza There is not yet a complete database that would allow measuring the increase in cancer patient deaths during the war precisely. But available indicators all point in the same direction. On August 4, the Health Ministry said the cancer crisis had reached a level where about three deaths per day were being recorded due to the absence of specialized treatment. Reuters reported on August 13 that doctors in Gaza estimated that the cancer patient death rate had become two to three times higher than before the war. Shifa Hospital director Mohammed Abu Suleimia said hospitals record between three and five cancer patient deaths daily. These are medical estimates, not a comprehensive statistical tally for all cases in the Strip. Mohammad Turk still waits for a check and a surgery before his vision deteriorates further. Almaza Abu Hana also waits for travel while her back pain continues. Mohammad Al-Bashliki’s wife searches for medicines, painkillers, and foods her husband can take, while hoping his name reaches a treatment trip outside Gaza. Three different cases, but they summarize a reality faced by thousands of cancer patients: limited treatment within the Strip, and a path to treatment abroad that remains slower than patients’ needs.

Displaced in the Gaza Strip (file) - Mohammed M Skaik / Zuma Press / Europa Press / With MADRID 30 Aug. (EUROPE PRESS) - Three Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, have died this Sunday in new attacks by the Israeli security forces in the Gaza Strip despite the formally in effect ceasefire. The most serious incident occurred in the Deir al-Balah area, in the center of the Palestinian enclave, where Hosam Nasir and Taim Saed Mahmud Hamdan, aged three, have died and several others were injured in an Israeli airstrike against a group of people near the Al Bana bakery in western Deir al-Balah, according to the Palestinian daily Filastín’s portal. The Israeli Army has confirmed the attack and said the target was “a terrorist from the military wing of the terror organization Hamas.” Nasir “promoted terrorist plots against the forces of the IDF — Israel Defense Forces — and the citizens of the State of Israel and was eliminated to neutralize the threat,” according to the military statement. The Israeli Armed Forces say that “before the attack steps were taken to minimize civilian harm, including the use of precision weapons and aerial observation.” Separately, Muhamad Shafii Naser al Din, 21, has died following an Israeli bombing in the city of Jabalya, in the southern Gaza Strip. In the northern part of the Palestinian enclave, a girl wounded by Israeli fire in the Jabalya refugee camp and a young man wounded by a gunshot in Al Tuam, in the northwest of the Gaza City, have both been reported. Artillery bombardments, shootings and demolition operations by Israeli forces have also been reported in areas such as Rafah. On Saturday, four people died in Israeli attacks and another died later from the severity of injuries suffered in previous days, according to the latest tally from the Gaza Health Ministry, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). In total, since the escalation began on October 7, 2023, 73,454 Palestinians have died and 174,486 have been injured. Since the entry into force of the latest ceasefire, on October 11, 2023, 1,318 Palestinians have died and 4,375 have been injured.

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Israeli Airstrike in Gaza Kills Man, Young Daughter as Ceasefire Falters Details and Aftermath of the Gaza Airstrikes Initial Strike and Casualties CAIRO, Sept 6 (Reuters) - An Israeli strike killed a man and his 8-year-old daughter in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials said. Mohamed Abu Selmia, head of Al Shifa Hospital, the enclave's largest medical facility, said the airstrike hit a vehicle in western Gaza City, killing Youssef Akila and his daughter, Wafaa, and wounding six others. Israeli Military Response An Israeli military spokesperson said forces targeted a Hamas militant and the military was still looking into results of the attack. Subsequent Strikes and Additional Fatalities Later on Sunday, two separate Israeli strikes killed two other people, including a child in Gaza City, medics said. They added that an Israeli strikes killed at least one man near the telecommunication company east of Gaza City while an Israeli tank at a school housing displaced families killed a seven-year-old girl, taking Sunday’s death toll to at least four. Ceasefire Agreement and Ongoing Violence An October 2025 U.S.-backed ceasefire halted major fighting in the territory, but it failed to end strikes by the Israeli military, which it said aimed to thwart attacks by Hamas and other Gaza militants. Hamas Accusations and Political Implications Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement U.S. President Donald Trump's broader plan to end the Gaza conflict, which also includes Israeli withdrawals and Hamas disarmament. Casualty Figures Since Ceasefire More than 1,300 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect last October, according to the territory's health officials, while the Israeli military says four Israeli soldiers have been killed. Hamas does not usually disclose information about fatalities among its fighters. Reporting Credits (Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Editing by Tomasz Janowski, Toby Chopra and Nick Zieminski)

Israeli Airstrike Kills Family in Gaza Amid Rising Conflict and Ceasefire Tensions Escalation of Violence and Human Impact in Gaza By Nidal al-Mughrabi Details of the Airstrike CAIRO, Sept 10 (Reuters) - An Israeli airstrike killed a man, his wife, and their two daughters, aged 8 and 12, in a house in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, health officials said, after the Israeli military escalated bombardments over the past two days. Israeli Military Statement The Israeli military said the strike targeted a "military structure" and killed Muamen Ahmed, who it described as a military operative who had taken a direct part in combat against Israeli forces. It gave no mention of a wife or children, but said Ahmed had recently been "advancing terror attacks" against Israeli forces. Health officials and relatives in Gaza confirmed that Ahmed had been killed, but made no comment on his alleged activities. Aftermath and Community Response At Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital, friends and relatives flocked to pay their respect as the white-shrouded bodies of the family members were laid on the ground before being taken to burials. Zuhair Al-Haisami, a neighbour of the victims, said an airstrike had hit their home at 2 a.m., while they were sleeping. "There isn't any truce," he said. "Not a single day passes without martyrs, or (people being) injured," he added. Ceasefire Tensions and Accusations Ceasefire Status and Ongoing Strikes An October 2025, U.S.-backed, ceasefire halted large-scale fighting, but it has not ended Israeli strikes and there has been little progress on steps towards permanent peace. Mutual Accusations Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement U.S. President Donald Trump's broader plan to end the Gaza conflict, which includes the Israeli withdrawal from the strip and the disarmament of Hamas. Israel says Hamas has been violating the deal. Military Strikes Cause New Displacement MILITARY STRIKES CAUSE NEW DISPLACEMENT Casualties and Displacement More than 1,300 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect, according to the territory's health officials, while the Israeli military says four Israeli soldiers have been killed. Hamas does not usually disclose information about fatalities among its fighters. The Israeli military struck at least six homes across Gaza in the past two days, causing damage to nearby houses and tent shelters and forcing many families to flee, residents and medics said. Some owners of the houses, or their neighbours, got a call from the military ordering them to leave the area shortly before missiles struck the buildings, residents said. Statements from Both Sides The Israeli military did not comment directly on the strikes on houses, but said on Wednesday it had hit three areas across the Gaza Strip and dismantled three Hamas weapons storage facilities. On Tuesday, Israeli security forces said they had dismantled another three weapons depots belonging to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Ismail Al-Thawabta, director of the Hamas-run Gaza government media office, denied Israeli allegations, saying that Israel's targets were "the civilians and their homes." Wider Context and Ongoing Conflict Historical Background and Recent Figures The 2023 Hamas-led attacks killed 1,200 people in Israel while another 251 were taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies. More than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's military campaign, according to Gaza health authorities. (Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi. Additional reporting by Dawoud Abu Alkas and Alex Cornwell;Editing by Sharon Singleton, Aidan Lewis)

By Playing Wagner in Israel, This Swiss Director Broke Two Boycotts at Once Gift this articleShare to FacebookPrint article Article printing is available to subscribers only Print in a simple, ad-free format Subscribe Comments: SaveZen Reading Zen reading is available to subscribers only Ad-free and in a comfortable reading format Subscribe !Milo Rau, founder and artistic director of "The International Institute of Political Murder." Milo Rau, founder and artistic director of "The International Institute of Political Murder." Credit: Orit Pnini Last week, Swiss theater director Milo Rau brought Wagner's music to an Israeli audience. By speaking with former Israeli hostages and Gazans, he broke the greatest taboo of all: embracing complexity !Talia Banon Tsur Talia Banon Tsur 11:29 AM • August 28 2026 IDT expand Would you like us to summarize articles for you? If you're already risking the wrath of the global world of culture by visiting a country, why not stir up a storm in the country too? That's exactly what Swiss theater director Milo Rau did when he landed in Israel in mid-August to stage excerpts from the operas of nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner, as part of research for a production of Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" in Berlin. Loading... Click the alert icon to follow topics: FollowBDS Movement FollowAntisemitism FollowGermany FollowTrauma FollowIsraeli art Comments Your Perspective Belongs Here Want to reply? Subscribe to join the conversation SUBSCRIBE Already signed up? Log in Loading... In the News In the News: Live UpdatesWest BankIDF VideoGaza Militias Iran RegimeNetanyahu CampaignOfer WinterSuper El NiñoPollHaQuizHaaretz Podcast ICYMI ICYMI

Key Events Updates U.S. forces struck two Iranian launchers on Larak Island earlier Sunday after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was observed preparing to launch rockets carrying sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz, a U.S. official said. The IRGC said a U.S. attack on Larak Island on Sunday killed and wounded several Iranian fighters and civilians, and vowed to respond and punish those responsible, state broadcaster IRIB reported. They did not provide a precise casualty toll. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he would not tolerate Jewish violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, while concurrently saying he wants to "defend the settlements and strengthen them," during an interview on the Channel 14 News talk show The Patriots. Netanyahu, entering the studio to "Bibi king of Israel" chants, said such attacks harm Israel's image and undermine the settlement movement. He also accused the Israeli and international media of exaggerating the extent of the violence. "We don't need to add problems to ourselves by ourselves," Netanyahu said regarding settler violence. He described those involved as a small group of young people and said they had no right to enter Palestinian villages, where he said the military and police are responsible for maintaining security. Netanyahu said the violence is "a huge blow" to law-abiding Israelis who are fighting and making sacrifices, and pledged to "stop it." Netanyahu further boasted that his current government founded 84 settlements and 150 outposts in the West Bank. NBC News international correspondent Matt Bradley says he and his crew are "all ok now" after being attacked by masked Israeli settlers in the West Bank on Saturday. "They jumped out, beat us, then jumped back in the car," Bradley told NBC News, describing the attack. The correspondent and members of his press crew were attacked while interviewing a Palestinian woman in Jalud, one of several Palestinian villages in the Nablus area that have become a flashpoint for clashes with settlers over recent weeks. The Palestine Red Crescent said that its teams, along with private ambulance crews, treated four Palestinians who were wounded by live fire in the town of al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah in the West Bank. The wounded were taken to a hospital for medical treatment, the Red Crescent said. Local reports said the shooting was carried out by Israeli settlers. There were no details on the condition of the wounded. The Israeli Defense Forces struck the outskirts of the village of Yohmor in the Nabatieh Governorate in southern Lebanon, according to Hezbollah-affiliated newspaper Al Akhbar. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said a tanker was struck by a projectile 12 nautical miles north of the Omani port city of Khasab. No casualties or environmental impact were reported, the UKMTO said. Gaza's education system remains largely dysfunctional, with hundreds of thousands of school-age children lacking meaningful access to education, according to data collected by the Humanitarian Forum on Gaza, an organization of Israeli civil society experts and NGOs, in August 2026. The group said 772,042 school-age children are currently outside the formal education system. Of those, 338,722 are expected to receive no form of education, while 433,301 are participating in temporary learning spaces, operating at roughly 600 locations across the Gaza Strip. More than 93 percent of schools in Gaza have been severely damaged or destroyed, the forum said. It estimated that about 180,000 children aged 9 and 10 have never attended school regularly. The forum attributed Gaza's slow education infrastructure recovery partly to restrictions on aid and construction materials, which have forced children into inadequate temporary learning spaces. The forum also raised concerns that some organizations permitted by Israel to operate in Gaza lack established experience implementing similar educational initiatives. Here are Sunday's latest updates: ■ A British activist in the West Bank was detained by Israeli authorities on Saturday on suspicion of committing an indecent act on a minor, as footage circulating on social media showed armed settlers restraining him against his will. ■ The American Jewish Committee (AJC) said it strongly condemned "the continued violent attacks by Israeli extremists" against Palestinians in the West Bank this past weekend. ■ National Defense Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir confronted female Palestinian detainees in an Israeli prison, saying he is happy he degraded prison conditions to a minimum. ■ Several U.S. military generals warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonging large-scale operations against Iran is unsustainable and risks weakening the military's ability to confront threats elsewhere, including to the U.S. homeland.

Backed by the Government and Army, Israeli Settlers Gain a Foothold in West Bank's Area B Gift this articleShare to FacebookPrint article Article printing is available to subscribers only Print in a simple, ad-free format Subscribe Comments: SaveZen Reading Zen reading is available to subscribers only Ad-free and in a comfortable reading format Subscribe !Members of the Border Police alongside settlers from the Tel Talpiot outpost in Area B this month. Members of the Border Police alongside settlers from the Tel Talpiot outpost in Area B this month. Credit: Itai Ron The Israeli government blames the violence on a 'handful' of extremists. Yet settlers have established 30 outposts in Area B, where the Palestinian Authority oversees civilian affairs, encouraged by elected officials and unchallenged by security forces !- Matan Golan August 30, 2026 expand Would you like us to summarize articles for you? A few years ago, F. and his family moved away from the village of Qusra in the West Bank. Their previous home was on the border of the West Bank's Area C, which is under exclusive Israeli control, and they were tired of being harassed by settlers. Loading... Click the alert icon to follow topics: FollowIsrael settlers FollowPalestinian Authority FollowWest Bank FollowIsrael occupation FollowIsrael settlements Comments Your Perspective Belongs Here Want to reply? Subscribe to join the conversation SUBSCRIBE Already signed up? Log in Loading... In the News In the News: Live UpdatesE1 West BankChief RabbiBritish AcitivistEl-Sayed NetanyahuNBC CrewRoger WatersPollHaQuizHaaretz Podcast ICYMI ICYMI

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Gift this articleShare to FacebookPrint article Article printing is available to subscribers only Print in a simple, ad-free format Subscribe Comments: SaveZen Reading Zen reading is available to subscribers only Ad-free and in a comfortable reading format Subscribe !Ben Kroll Ben Kroll 01:49 PM • September 06 2026 IDT Avi Issacharoff, co-creator of the popular Israeli television series "Fauda," criticized actor Mark Ruffalo's statements alleging that Israel perpetrated a genocide in Gaza, calling the actor "ignorant" and "stupid." Loading... Click the alert icon to follow topics: Followanti-Israel FollowGaza aid FollowHamas FollowGaza FollowAntisemitism FollowIsrael-Gaza War FollowGenocide Comments Your Perspective Belongs Here Want to reply? Subscribe to join the conversation SUBSCRIBE Already signed up? Log in Loading... In the News In the News: Live UpdatesIran-U.S.Huckabee in West BankGloria SteinemGazaIsrael ElectionHadashHaQuizHaaretz Podcast ICYMI Trending Now Trending Now Trending Now Trending Now Trending Now ICYMI

Gaza/Jerusalem, August 30 (EFE) — Israel killed on Sunday a 3-year-old child and a man in an air strike in central Gaza, which the Israeli Army said was aimed at a member of the armed wing of the Islamist group Hamas. According to EFE, hospital sources in Gaza City’s Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital and the Gaza ambulance service, in addition to the two dead, other people were injured in the attack, which occurred in the town of Deir al-Balah. In a statement, the Israeli Army said that in the attack it killed Hasam Osama Husein Nasir, whom it identifies as a member of Hamas’ military wing, and adds that he had carried out attacks against Israeli troops and civilians, without specifying which ones. Publicity In the last week, Israel has carried out nearly daily attacks in Gaza aimed at alleged members of Hamas’ armed wing. This Saturday night, it killed two Palestinians aged 21 and 22 west of Khan Younis (southern Gaza Strip), whom it described as terrorists from the Islamist group. Also on Saturday, it carried out a drone attack that caused injuries at a point in the Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital complex that hospital sources described as a medicines warehouse and in which, according to Israel, a Hamas militant was hiding. Publicity According to the latest data published this Sunday by the Gaza Ministry of Health, since the truce went into effect on October 11, 2025, 1,318 Palestinians have died in the Strip from Israeli attacks, four of them this Saturday. Additionally, 4,375 have been injured, while the bodies of 815 people have been recovered from the rubble. Since the start of the Israeli military offensive on October 7, 2023, the ministry tallies 73,454 Palestinians killed and 174,486 wounded. The United Nations estimates that around 90% of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure has been destroyed, with a reconstruction cost estimated at about $70 billion (60.417 billion euros). EFE

Al menos cinco palestinos han muerto este lunes a causa de nuevos bombardeos ejecutados por el Ejército de Israel contra la ciudad de Gaza (norte), a pesar del alto el fuego pactado en octubre de 2025 para aplicar la propuesta de Estados Unidos para el futuro del enclave, aceptada por las autoridades israelíes y el Movimiento de Resistencia Islámica (Hamás). Según las informaciones recogidas por la agencia palestina de noticias WAFA, un primer ataque ha alcanzado a un grupo de personas en los alrededores de un parque público en el oeste de la ciudad, matando a dos personas y dejando numerosos heridos, un extremo confirmado por el diario palestino 'Filastin'. PUBLICIDAD Posteriormente, otros tres palestinos han muerto en un segundo ataque aéreo contra un vehículo en el barrio de Tel al Haua, en el suroeste de la ciudad de Gaza, tal y como han confirmado fuentes médicas del Hospital Al Shifa, sin que Israel se haya pronunciado por ahora sobre los bombardeos. Las autoridades de la Franja de Gaza, controladas por el Movimiento de Resistencia Islámica (Hamás), han elevado este mismo lunes a 1.320 los palestinos muertos a causa de los ataques lanzados por Israel desde el acuerdo de alto el fuego alcanzado en octubre de 2025 para aplicar la propuesta de Estados Unidos para el futuro del enclave costero. PUBLICIDAD Asimismo, han resaltado que desde el inicio de la ofensiva lanzada por Israel tras los ataques del 7 de octubre de 2023 --que dejaron unos 1.200 muertos y cerca de 250 secuestrados, según el balance oficial-- se han registrado 73.456 muertos y 174.496 heridos, si bien ha remarcado que aún hay cadáveres entre los escombros y en zonas ocupadas por Israel.

Gaza - People: The group’s activity continues to escalate, with support from the people of the region in facing the aggression from Israel. The war and the ongoing confrontations have increased the casualties on both sides, including civilians. The conflict has intensified, and the people are calling for unity and solidarity to end the violence. The news highlights that the government’s actions and the political divisions have complicated the situation, while the international community remains involved in trying to de-escalate. The Israeli occupation continues to bombard the Gaza Strip, and many lives have been lost in the recent aggression. In the context of the war, the Palestinian people are under siege, and the political leadership is under pressure. The conflict has produced 73,456 casualties and 174,496 injuries since last year, marking a devastating toll and raising concerns about the possibility of a ceasefire in 2023.

Despite the ceasefire agreement reached in October 2025 under the United States proposal, the Israeli army has continued its military operations in the Gaza Strip. This Tuesday, two Palestinians died, including an underage child, according to local reports. According to information from the Palestinian newspaper Filastin, a man died and several people were wounded after a bombing to the west of Gaza City, in the northern part of the enclave. On the other hand, the boy identified as Israa al Hisimu died from Israeli gunfire near Deir al Balā, in central Gaza. The Gaza authorities, under Hamas control, updated the casualty figures. Since the start of the ceasefire, 1,320 Palestinians have died from Israeli attacks. In total, since October 7, 2023, the Israeli offensive has left more than 73,450 dead, in response to Hamas attacks that caused about 1,200 fatalities and around 250 abductees, according to official tallies. Source: Infobae

In a new violation of the ceasefire in place since October 2025, an Israeli Army drone bombed a home in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, killing at least four Palestinians. The attack occurred despite the agreement backed by the United States proposal for the enclave. According to reports from the Palestinian agency WAFA, rescue teams managed to recover four bodies from the rubble. However, there are fears that several people are missing under the debris, so authorities warn that the death toll could rise in the coming hours. The Gaza Health Ministry reported on Wednesday that since the ceasefire came into effect, approximately 1,360 Palestinians have died from Israeli attacks. Since the start of the Israeli offensive, triggered after the attacks of October 7, 2023, a total of 73,669 have died and 174,652 have been injured. Source: Infobae We are a news, opinion and information source in the political, economic, and sports fields.

At least three people have died this Tuesday in Gaza City, including two children aged 3 and 13, as a result of a new wave of Israeli bombardments over the heart of the capital of the Gaza Strip, confirmed by Shifa Hospital and verified on the ground by EFE Agency. The attacks occurred in the morning and affected the same central area of Gaza City on at least eleven occasions, in a new episode of violence despite the ceasefire reached in October 2025. Among the victims are a woman and two minors, aged three and thirteen. Medical and rescue teams continue working to locate possible victims among the buildings hit by the bombardments. The new offensive comes after other Israeli attacks on various points in the Strip were recorded in recent days. This Monday, at least five Palestinians died in two attacks in Gaza City, according to health sources cited by Reuters. The Israeli army then said that its operations targeted Hamas members. A ceasefire that has not ended the attacks. Although the ceasefire agreement reached in October 2025 ended large-scale fighting, Israeli military operations and attacks on Gaza have continued. Palestinian sources accuse Israel of violating the ceasefire, while Israeli authorities defend their operations as measures aimed at preventing new Hamas attacks. The situation keeps the Gazan civilian population under enormous pressure, as displacement and destruction of infrastructure continue in various areas of the enclave.

Summary: Supervised by journalists. Israel has resumed its attacks on Gaza, breaking the ceasefire signed nearly a year ago. The Israeli army carried out bombardments in which a couple and their eight- and twelve-year-old daughters died, according to Shifa Hospital. The attack occurred in Beit Lahia, near Israeli positions that control more than 60% of the Gaza Strip. The Wafa news agency reported that an Israeli drone was responsible for the attack, leaving several injured and possibly missing. In addition, Israel has launched artillery strikes in eastern Gaza and fired from ships off Jan Yunis. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, Israel has killed 73,669 people since October 2023, with 1,358 deaths since the truce. Despite the truce, attacks continue daily.

An Israeli attack on a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City killed one person and wounded several others. The latest strike took place in the Mashahra area of Gaza City, Wafa reported, bringing the number of people killed across the Gaza Strip in Israeli attacks on Friday to five,Al Jazeerareported. Earlier, Israeli attacks killed one person in Gaza City's Sabra neighborhood and three others nearKhan Younis. RECOMMENDED STORIESIran will never ‘forget or forgive’ Minab school attack, foreign minister saysIsraeli forces conduct raid in Syria’s QuneitraIsraeli missile strike kills at least one in GazaIran says it has restored 40% of South Pars gas capacity after US-Israeli strikes The latest casualties add to the continuing toll from Israeli attacks across the enclave, where displaced Palestinians have sought shelter amid the ongoing conflict. News.Az Fed Chair signals possible new rate hike as inflation remains elevated Marvell shares plunge as investors question timing of Google AI deal 8 dead after drone targets civilians in Sudan’s war-torn North Kordofan Rwandan-born Dutch national sentenced to life for role in 1994 genocide Why Himalayan floods are so difficult to predict as new disaster strikes Nepal Russia-Ukraine peace talks stay on hold as no new proposals exist Latest News Besiktas to face Leverkusen, Marseille and Crystal Palace in Europa League LIVE:Nepal flood death toll exceeds 500 as thousands remain missing Trabzonspor face Freiburg, Red Star Belgrade in 2026-27 Conference League One killed in Gaza City attack as Israeli strikes leave five dead across enclave Fed Chair signals possible new rate hike as inflation remains elevated Marvell shares plunge as investors question timing of Google AI deal Fed chair Warsh warns inflation fight is not over as markets eye rate hikes -VIDEO Iran will never ‘forget or forgive’ Minab school attack, foreign minister says Ukraine confirms shutdown of major oil refinery in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod 8 dead after drone targets civilians in Sudan’s war-torn North Kordofan Archive

Health officials in Gaza reported on Sunday the death of two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, in an airstrike conducted by the Israeli army in the central Gaza Strip region. Medics said the strike targeted a site near a bakery in the city of Deir al-Balah, resulting in the martyrdom of Husam Nasir and the child Tim Hamdan, and injuring several other Palestinians. The Israeli army, in a statement, said the strike targeted a Hamas fighter and managed to kill him, adding that the deceased Nasir was involved in attacks against Israeli forces and civilians. No immediate comment was issued by Hamas regarding the Israeli account. This attack comes despite a ceasefire reached in October 2025 under U.S. sponsorship, which halted major military operations in Gaza, but did not prevent the Israeli army from carrying out strikes it says are aimed at thwarting potential Hamas and armed faction attacks. Hamas accuses Israel of violating the agreement and undermining efforts to implement a broader plan proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, which would include the withdrawal of Israeli forces and the disarmament of Hamas. According to Gaza health ministry data, the number of Palestinian fatalities in the Strip since the ceasefire took effect in October has risen to more than 1,300 martyrs, while the Israeli army acknowledges the death of four of its soldiers during the same period. Editor: Ammar Al-Katib

An Israeli air strike killed two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, near a bakery in central Gaza on Sunday, according to health officials and medics cited by Reuters. The dead were identified as Hussam Nasser and three-year-old Taym Hamdan, while several others were wounded in the attack in Deir el-Balah. The Israeli military earlier said it had targeted and killed a Hamas fighter whom it accused of involvement in attacks against Israeli forces and civilians. Gaza health officials say more than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire took effect in October 2025. An Israeli air strike killed two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, near a bakery in central Gaza on Sunday, according to health officials and medics cited by Reuters. The dead were identified as Hussam Nasser and three-year-old Taym Hamdan, while several others were wounded in the attack in Deir el-Balah. The Israeli military earlier said it had targeted and killed a Hamas fighter whom it accused of involvement in attacks against Israeli forces and civilians. Gaza health officials say more than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire took effect in October 2025. Copyright © 2014 - 2026.Middle East Eye. All rights reserved.Only England and Wales jurisdiction apply in all legal matters. Middle East Eye          ISSN 2634-2456

At least two Palestinian children have been killed in fresh Israeli attacks across Gaza, Wafa news agency reports. According to medical sources, at least one child was killed in a strike west of Gaza City, and another in an attack in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. Al Jazeera described chaotic scenes in Gaza City following "intense" Israeli attacks, reporting that 10 blasts were heard in al-Kateeba - one of the most densely populated areas of western Gaza City. It said that a field hospital and school were evacuated during the attack, adding that it is currently unclear how many people have been wounded. Al-Shifa Hospital reports that casualties are still arriving. Meanwhile Israel's military said its forces targeted several areas across the Strip "with the aim of removing threats". In a statement, it reported that two vehicles were struck by drone missiles. “The American field hospital has been ordered to evacuate due to the ongoing strikes. The incident is still unfolding and the situation remains highly volatile,” it said.

Creating new perspectives since 2009 August 28, 2026 at 1:16 pm A view of the damage and aftermath following an Israeli drone strike targeting a motorcycle near the Al-Sinaa (Industry) Junction in southern Gaza City, Palestine on August 27, 2026. [Ali Jadallah – Anadolu Agency] Three Palestinians from the same family were killed Friday in an Israeli drone strike in Al-Qarara, north of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to medical and local sources, Anadolu reports. A medical source at Nasser Hospital told Anadolu that the bodies of the three Palestinians were brought to the facility after the Israeli strike near Al-Matahin junction in Al-Qarara. Witnesses and local sources told Anadolu that the victims were two brothers and their cousin from the Abdeen family. An Israeli drone struck them while they were outside their home, killing all three, the sources said. In central Gaza, a Palestinian was moderately injured by Israeli military vehicle fire east of Deir al-Balah, according to a medical source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. READ:Israeli defense chief renews threat to punish Gaza for flying kites Israeli military vehicles also opened heavy fire south of Khan Younis, while Israeli warships opened fire toward the city’s coastline, with no injuries reported. The attacks came despite US President Donald Trump’s call for Israel to halt strikes on the Gaza Strip. In an Aug. 17 interview with US broadcaster Fox News, Trump said Israel “shouldn’t be carrying out strikes in Gaza.” He also said Hamas had agreed to give up its weapons under his plan aimed at ending the war in the enclave. The ceasefire agreement has been in effect since Oct. 10, 2025, but Israeli violations have killed 1,303 Palestinians and injured 4,336 others since then, while hundreds of bodies have been recovered from the rubble. Since October 2023, Israel has killed around 73,438 Palestinians and injured 174,447 others in the Gaza Strip, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. READ:Gaza Health Ministry reports more than 6,000 amputations amid prosthetics shortage This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the GooglePrivacy PolicyandTerms of Serviceapply. Δ

Fuerzas israelíes han matado al menos a siete personas este viernes en ataques perpetrados en Gaza y Cisjordania. En la Franja han muerto cuatro palestinos, entre ellos tres de una misma familia, a causa nuevos bombardeos ejecutados por el Ejército de Israel, que ha vulnerado, una vez más, el alto el fuego de octubre de 2025. La agencia palestina de noticias Wafa ha informado de un primer ataque ha alcanzado a un grupo de agricultores en la localidad de Al Qarara, matando a tres de ellos, un balance que ha sido confirmado por fuentes médicas del Hospital Naser. Posteriormente, en un segundo ataque perpetrado contra el barrio de Al Saqira, en la ciudad de Gaza, militares israelíes han matado a una persona. Las autoridades gazatíes han denunciado en su último balance que más de 1.300 palestinos han muerto por ataques de las tropas israelíes desde la entrada en vigor del citado acuerdo de alto el fuego. Desde el inicio de la ofensiva lanzada por Israel tras los ataques del 7 de octubre de 2023 se han registrado 73.438 muertos y 174.447 heridos. Ataque en Cisjordania Por otro lado, el Ejército israelí ha anunciado este viernes la muerte de Qais Bitawi, un alto cargo de Hamás en el campamento de refugiados de Yenín. En un comunicado publicado en su página web, el Ejército de Israel ha anunciado que el ataque lanzado contra el vehículo en el que se encontraba Bitawi ha dejado otros dos muertos más. Hamas ha confirmado la muerte de «tres heroicos mártires» en el bombardeo israelí, efectuado a las afueras de un domicilio situado en la zona de Harash al Saada. El movimiento de resistencia palestino ha condenado este «crimen atroz» y avisado que de Cisjordania, a pesar de la intensificación de las operaciones israelíes y de los asaltos de colonos durante las últimas semanas, seguirá siendo una «cuna de revolucionarios». «Hacemos un llamamiento a las masas de nuestro pueblo en Yenín y en toda Cisjordania para que intensifiquen todas las formas de resistencia, desbaraten los cálculos de seguridad de la ocupación, hagan frente a sus crímenes y a los ataques de sus bandas de colonos, y unan los esfuerzos nacionales frente a los planes de asesinato, anexión y desplazamiento», ha manifestado. Cabe señalar que soldados israelíes impidieron el paso de la Media Luna Roja Palestina para socorrer a los heridos. De hecho, el personal sanitario fue detenido y el equipo médico confiscado.

arrow-down top-nav arrow-next facebook-fill whatsapp-fill right-arrow bell Advertisement Israel Kills 5 Civilians In Fresh Airstrikes In Gaza Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said on Monday morning that it had received two bodies "following an Israeli airstrike that targeted the entrance of a residential building near the municipal park in Gaza City". Read Time: 2 mins Share !Israel Kills 5 Civilians In Fresh Airstrikes In Gaza Violence has not halted in the Gaza Strip. Show Quick Read Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed Israeli airstrikes killed five people near Gaza City on Monday Al-Shifa Hospital received five bodies and several wounded from two separate strikes Israeli military said it targeted Hamas operatives in the strikes, including a weapons supplier What is the current humanitarian situation for civilians in Gaza? Israeli airstrikes killed five people around Gaza City on Monday, a local hospital and rescuers said, with the Israeli army saying it had targeted Hamas "military operatives". Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said on Monday morning that it had received two bodies "following an Israeli airstrike that targeted the entrance of a residential building near the municipal park in Gaza City". Later in the day, the hospital said it received three additional bodies and several wounded "as a result of an Israeli drone strike that targeted a civilian car in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood, southwest of Gaza City". The civil defence, which operates as a rescue service under Hamas authority, confirmed to AFP the toll of the two strikes. Images shared by the civil defence showed workers inspecting the car targeted in the second strike, completely destroyed and reduced to a blackened shell of warped metal, as a crowd of bystanders gathered around it. When contacted by AFP, the Israeli military said that in both strikes it had "attacked operatives from Hamas's military wing", the Ezzedine Al-Qassam brigades. It later identified one of the dead as Omar Mohammed Roshdy Saraj and said he supplied weapons to Hamas. "The terrorists were struck in order to remove the threat they posed," a military statement said. Despite a US-backed ceasefire that took effect in October 2025, violence has not halted in the Gaza Strip, with Israel continuing to target Palestinians it says are militants. Israel has insisted it must eliminate threats from Hamas, whose unprecedented October 7, 2023 attack against Israel sparked the war in Gaza. Israeli operations in Gaza have killed at least 1,318 people since the ceasefire came into effect, according to the Palestinian territory's health ministry, which also operates under Hamas authority and whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations. The Israeli army has reported five deaths in its ranks over the same period, as well as the death of one civilian contractor. _(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)_ Got a follow‑up question on this article? Go on Are there any updates on the current ceasefire status? How many people have died since the ceasefire began? What is the official response from international organizations about these strikes? How may i help you today Show full article Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world Follow us: Israeli Airstrikes, Gaza City, Israel Gaza Related News Israel Kills 3-Year-Old Boy In Airstrike Near Gaza Bakery "Outrageous": UN On Israeli Threat To Expel Gazans Over Children Flying Kite Turkey Issues 'Genocide' Warrant For Netanyahu Over Flotilla Interception Trending News After Bilateral Meet, PM Modi Carpools With Putin For Nomad Games FIFA Boss Infantino's Emotional Tribute After Lionel Messi's Retirement Pakistan Star Faked Injury To Not Bat vs England Despite Team In Danger? "Poison For The Game": Ex-Pak Captain's Explosive Attack On Babar's Coaches Lionel Messi Explains Why He Delayed Retirement Announcement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Latest News PNR Status Education News Business News Sports News Nepal Flash Floods LIVE US-Iran War Live Updates Delhi Playschool Assault Horror Vaibhav Sooryavanshi Duleep Trophy Semi-final 1 Live Score Advertisement Edition Get App for Better Experience Install Now choose your destination [](https://marathi.ndtv.com/) News Updates Live TV India Spotlight Beeps Latest Video Podcast Lifestyle Movies Cricket Cities Featured Notifications Opinion Web Stories Trends Feature More Links Offbeat Science South Education Food Sports Health TV Schedule Toolbox * Follow Us On !Please Click on allow Listen to the

Cairo, August 30 — Health officials in Gaza said on Sunday that an Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child, in the central Gaza Strip. Medics said the airstrike, which hit near a bakery in Deir al-Balah, killed a man named Hussam Nasser and a boy named Tim Hamdan, in addition to injuring several others. The army said it targeted a fighter from Hamas and managed to kill him. It added that Nasser had been involved in attacks on Israeli forces and civilians. Hamas has not yet commented on the Israeli army’s statements. The ceasefire reached in October 2025, backed by the United States, halted major fighting in the devastated enclave but did not stop Israeli strikes, which it says aim to thwart Hamas attacks and other armed groups. Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement a broader plan proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the Gaza war, which also calls for the Israeli withdrawal and disarmament of Hamas. According to Gaza health officials, more than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire went into effect in October. The Israeli army says four of its soldiers have died since then. News coverage by Nadhal Al-Mughrabi from Cairo and Steve Shear from Jerusalem — drafted by Reham Alaa for the Arabic news brief — edited by Salma Najm. Our standards: Thomson Reuters trust principles.

Cairo, August 31 (Reuters) - Health officials in Gaza said at least five Palestinians were killed in at least two Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip today, Monday. Medics said two people were killed and several injured when an Israeli airstrike hit a crowd near the Municipality Park in Gaza City, a densely populated area that houses displaced families. Subscribe here. Later in the day, medics said an Israeli airstrike targeted a vehicle in the Tel al-Haoua neighborhood west of Gaza City, killing at least three people. The Israeli army said the two attacks targeted members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement and did not disclose further details. At Al-Shifa hospital, the Strip’s largest medical facility, relatives and friends prayed over two of the five dead before burial. Amjad Abu Abdu, a relative of one of the victims of the first strike today, said, “There is no ceasefire... there is no day for us here in Gaza since October 7 until the moment I’m speaking.” He added, “I swear to God we don’t sleep from the sound of the reconnaissance planes and the sound of the drones... you lie down to sleep in fear of being bombed.” Israeli statistics show 1,200 people killed during the Hamas-led cross-border attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. The Gaza health ministry says Israeli attacks have killed more than 73,000 Palestinians in the Strip since then. The truce that was reached in October 2025, with U.S. support, ended major fighting in the devastated Strip, but did not put an end to Israeli assaults, which say the airstrikes aim to thwart Hamas and other factions in Gaza. Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement a broader plan devised by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the war in Gaza, which also includes the withdrawal of Israeli forces and the demobilization of the movement. Gaza health officials say more than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect in October last year, while the Israeli army says four Israeli soldiers were killed during the same period. Journalistic coverage by Nidal Al-Mraghi – Daud Abu al-Kas – prepared by Mahmoud rada Murad and Samih al-Khatib for the Arabic Bulletin – edited by Ali Khafaji. Our standards: Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

CAIRO, Sept 6 (Reuters) - An Israeli strike killed a man and his 8-year-old daughter in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials said. Mohamed Abu Selmia, head of Al Shifa Hospital, the enclave's largest medical facility, said the airstrike hit a vehicle in western Gaza City, killing Youssef Akila and his daughter, Wafaa, and wounding six others. Sign up here. An Israeli military spokesperson said forces targeted a Hamas militant and the military was still looking into results of the attack. An October 2025 U.S.-backed ceasefire halted major fighting in the territory, but it failed to end strikes by the Israeli military, which it said aimed to thwart attacks by Hamas and other Gaza militants. Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement U.S. President Donald Trump's broader plan to end the Gaza conflict, which also includes Israeli withdrawals and Hamas disarmament. More than 1,300 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect last October, according to the territory's health officials, while the Israeli military says four Israeli soldiers have been killed. Hamas does not usually disclose information about fatalities among its fighters. (This story has corrected to show the daughter is 8 years old, not a teenager, in paragraph 1) Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi; Editing by Tomasz Janowski, Toby Chopra and Nick Zieminski Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

This website uses cookies. For more information, please read the Privacy Policy. Agree [](https://en.royanews.tv/) [](https://en.royanews.tv/search) عربي Bombing in Gaza (file image) 1 !Image 1 from gallery 0 thumb_up 0 thumb_down ‘Israel’ kills father, daughter in Gaza Listen to this story: !forward!backward 0:00 1x Note: AI technology was used to generate this article’s audio. Published : 9 hours ago| Last Updated : 9 hours ago| Palestine An ‘Israeli’ drone struck a car west of Gaza City on Sunday, killing Yousef Akila and his daughter Wafaa. Six others were injured; the vehicle caught fire shortly after impact. An ‘Israeli’ drone struck a car west of Gaza City on Sunday, killing a father and his daughter and wounding six others. The vehicle caught fire shortly after the strike as emergency crews rushed to the scene. The victims, identified as Yousef Akila and his daughter Wafaa, were killed while driving on Al-Nasr Road, a main route used daily by hundreds of displaced residents. According to family members, Wafaa had been on her way from her first day of school when the strike hit. The attack is the latest violation of the ceasefire that took effect on Oct. 10, 2025. More than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since then, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, including at least 301 children. Read more: 'Israel's' Ben-Gvir plans to relocate 1.86M Palestinians from Gaza over 7 years Read More Previous !overlay shadow ](https://en.royanews.tv/news/73374)Gaza holds mass funeral for 100 unearthed from rubble, mostly children !overlay shadow ](https://en.royanews.tv/news/73379)UK tax agency threatened with lawsuit over ‘Israeli’ settlement imports !overlay shadow ](https://en.royanews.tv/news/73380)Netanyahu boasts about bombing Qatar !overlay shadow ](https://en.royanews.tv/news/73383)Jordan, 7 other Arab, Islamic nations condemn forced displacement of Gaza !overlay shadow ](https://en.royanews.tv/news/73385)Police kill ‘Israeli’ officer reportedly suffering from PTSD !overlay shadow ](https://en.royanews.tv/news/73389)‘Israeli’ strikes kill four, Lebanon urges US intervention !overlay shadow ](https://en.royanews.tv/news/73374)Gaza holds mass funeral for 100 unearthed from rubble, mostly children !overlay shadow ](https://en.royanews.tv/news/73379)UK tax agency threatened with lawsuit over ‘Israeli’ settlement imports !overlay shadow ](https://en.royanews.tv/news/73380)Netanyahu boasts about bombing Qatar !overlay shadow ](https://en.royanews.tv/news/73383)Jordan, 7 other Arab, Islamic nations condemn forced displacement of Gaza !overlay shadow ](https://en.royanews.tv/news/73385)Police kill ‘Israeli’ officer reportedly suffering from PTSD !overlay shadow ](https://en.royanews.tv/news/73389)‘Israeli’ strikes kill four, Lebanon urges US intervention !overlay shadow ](https://en.royanews.tv/news/73374)Gaza holds mass funeral for 100 unearthed from rubble, mostly children !overlay shadow ](https://en.royanews.tv/news/73379)UK tax agency threatened with lawsuit over ‘Israeli’ settlement imports !overlay shadow ](https://en.royanews.tv/news/73380)Netanyahu boasts about bombing Qatar Next 1 2 !Roya News Roya © 2024 All Rights Reserved Roya News English brings you the biggest news stories from Jordan, the Arab world and beyond. Facebook Twitter X Instagram WhatsApp Youtube Tiktok Privacy PolicyIntellectual Property Correction Policy Roya News | ‘Israel’ kills father, daughter in Gaza

Sources in Gaza hospitals, according to local media reports, said the number of martyrs due to Israeli airstrikes on several areas in Gaza City rose from five in the early hours to five, while the number of injuries remains under counting. In Gaza City, an Israeli airstrike targeted the entrance of a residential building near the Municipality Park, which, according to preliminary data, led to the martyrdom of two people and injuries to others. Local sources said the strike hit the entrance of the Haddad Building opposite the Municipality Park, and one of the martyrs was identified as Omar Muhammad Al-Saraj, the brother of journalist Alaa Al-Saraj. The Interior Ministry and National Security in Gaza also announced the death of Raid Omar Muhammad Al-Saraj from the ranks of the Internal Security Service, and Captain Talal Mustafa Badawi from the Interior Ministry, saying they were martyred alongside others due to an Israeli strike that targeted two separate sites in Gaza City. In the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood west of Gaza City, sources reported three martyrs from an airstrike that hit a vehicle near the Radio and Television Building. The martyrs were identified as Bara Ibrahim Al-Roubi, Mu’men Saeed Al-Hawari, and Talal Badawi. This coincided with Israeli artillery shelling to the east of Gaza City, while local sources spoke of Israeli gunfire toward several areas. In another development, several Palestinian fishermen were injured by gunfire from Israeli naval boats in the waters of Gaza City. The Palestinian Red Crescent said five fishermen were wounded by Israeli naval fire in the city’s waters, while Shifa Hospital, according to local sources, reported the arrival of two fishermen with gunshot injuries. Field sources also reported an Israeli helicopter conducting strikes and firing its weapons toward the eastern areas of Gaza City. In the southern Gaza Strip, three Palestinians were injured by Israeli army fire in various areas of Khan Younis, according to field data. A boy was also injured in the al-Qurra area (the fifth) in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip after an Israeli drone dropped a bomb in the area, according to local sources. In Khan Younis, Civil Defense said it had brought under control a fire that broke out in two tents in the Qatar refugee camp east of the city of Hamad, noting that the fire resulted from gunfire directed at the two tents by Israeli forces, amid ongoing shooting in the area. In central Gaza, sources reported Israeli army demolitions of Palestinian houses southeast of Deir al-Balah. In the health sector, Dr. Muneer Al-Barnesh, the Director-General of Health in Gaza, warned of the serious repercussions facing kidney patients in the enclave. He said more than half of the kidney patients who were receiving treatment before the war had died, warning that reducing dialysis sessions would lead to fluid and toxin buildup in patients’ bodies, increasing the risk of cardiac and respiratory complications and death. He noted that the crisis is not limited to a shortage of dialysis machines but also includes a shortage of sodium bicarbonate needed for dialysis sessions, along with medicines, consumables, and some essential kidney treatments. He stressed that a dialysis session is not a treatment that can be postponed, warning that any further shortage of operating materials or any shutdown of remaining devices could lead to more patient deaths. The Gaza Health Ministry said several victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, as rescue and civil defense teams are unable to reach them yet. According to the ministry’s figures, the number of martyrs since the ceasefire on October 11 reached 1,320, and the number of injuries 4,385, with 815 bodies recovered. The ministry added that the total toll since the war began on October 7, 2023, reached 73,456 martyrs, while injuries reached 174,496. Hamas, for its part, said the Israeli escalation in the Gaza Strip no longer falls under “sporadic violations,” but rather is a continuing war and a dodging of the ceasefire agreement. The movement said the intensification of Israeli army attacks since morning, including demolishing homes in the south of the Strip, firing on fishermen at the Gaza sea, and targeting civilians in various areas, has led to at least five Palestinians being martyred and others injured. Hamas accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government of following what it described as a “systematic escalation,” considering Israeli operations as a continuation of the war, and called on mediators and guarantor parties of the ceasefire to move quickly to pressure Israel to halt the attacks and to commit to implementing the agreement. The movement also called for international and UN action to hold Israeli officials accountable, saying that continued daily attacks necessitate international measures to protect Palestinians in the Strip. These developments come amidst ongoing field tension in the Gaza Strip, with concerns about widening military operations and the worsening humanitarian and health situation, especially given continued restrictions on aid deliveries, medical supplies, and the operation of health facilities. Source: RT

Residents of the Olive neighborhood in Gaza City buried 100 Palestinians in the Martyrs’ Cemetery southeast of the city on Sunday after they were retrieved from beneath the rubble of several homes. Health officials confirmed that an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip killed two people and injured six others. Local sources said the majority of the corpses for whom funeral prayers were held were women and children, noting that the bodies were recovered from beneath the rubble of several destroyed buildings belonging to the families Malka, Irhim, Al-Braywi, and Salami. The mourners then proceeded to the Martyrs’ Cemetery in the neighborhood next to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, where mass graves were dug for the bodies and burial took place. Attack on a vehicle Separately, health officials said an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip killed at least two Palestinians on Sunday, including a young girl. Mohammad Abu Sulmiyeh, the director of Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest in the enclave, said the Israeli airstrike targeted a vehicle in western Gaza City, resulting in two deaths and six injuries. The Israeli army has not commented on the incident. Military operations A US-backed ceasefire in October 2025 halted major fighting in the Gaza Strip, but it did not stop the strikes carried out by the Israeli military, which it said were aimed at thwarting Hamas attacks. Health officials reported more than 1,300 Palestinians killed, most of them civilians, in the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire took effect in October. The Israeli army says four Israeli soldiers were killed in the same period.

Tuesday, 19 Rabi al-Awwal 1448 AH - September 1, 2026 | English Français Arabic Watch aShahid programs latest episodes online World News Two Palestinians killed in Gaza by Israeli airstrike! 13 hours ago Palestinians carry the body of a Palestinian martyr killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City. Reuters Palestinians carry the body of a Palestinian martyr killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City. Reuters A A A Gaza health officials said an Israeli airstrike killed at least two Palestinians in the enclave today, Monday. Medics said two people were killed and several injured when an Israeli airstrike hit a crowd near the Municipality Park in Gaza City, a densely populated area housing displaced families. The ceasefire reached in October 2025, with U.S. backing, was meant to halt large-scale fighting in the devastated strip, but did not stop Israeli army assaults, which claim the airstrikes thwart attacks by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other armed factions in Gaza. Hamas accuses Israel of violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to implement a broader plan drawn up by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the war in Gaza, which also calls for Israeli forces’ withdrawal and the disarmament of the movement. Gaza health officials say more than 1,300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire took effect last October. Source: Reuters More World News Most Read Newsletter Subscription !notification icon We would like to send you breaking news alerts .. You can unsubscribe at any time Please allow Thank you

The Occupation targets pharmacies in Gaza amid worsening drug shortage and threats to thousands of patients' lives Gaza — Quds Network: Three Palestinians were injured today, Saturday, by an Israeli drone strike on a drug storage facility inside Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. The strike comes amid ongoing Israeli violations of the ceasefire in effect in Gaza since October 10, 2025. The director of Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital called on the international community to intervene to stop the occupation’s assaults on health facilities in Gaza. And this is not the first time that occupation forces have targeted the hospital’s drug storages during August. On the 1st of the month, the Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that an Israeli bombardment destroyed two of the four drug and medical consumables storages belonging to the hospital, causing substantial damage to the other storages and the adjacent outpatient clinic building. The ministry said the strike led to the loss of quantities of medicines and medical supplies designated for treating patients and the injured, at a time when the health sector is suffering a severe shortage due to the war and Israeli restrictions on the entry of supplies. Medicines are scarce to begin with. Recently, the Medical Aid for Palestinians Association in Gaza warned of the risk of stopping its services to thousands of patients, including those with chronic diseases, amid medicine shortages and the malfunction of several medical and laboratory devices, as well as a lack of fuel, oils, and spare parts needed to operate power generators and maintain equipment. The shortage of medicines is particularly affecting chronic-disease medications, in addition to pediatric and obstetric drugs. The crisis’s effects are not limited to medicine shortages, as the lack of equipment and laboratory supplies deprives patients of essential tests for monitoring their health. The pharmaceutical crisis in Gaza is deteriorating in a serious and unprecedented way, driven by the blockade and the direct targeting of the remaining medical infrastructure, especially the main drug warehouses and storages, which have become direct targets of Israeli military operations. Direct shelling of storages has led to the destruction of already scarce quantities of anesthetic drugs, surgical consumables, and materials needed to perform laboratory tests and determine patient dosages. According to the latest data released by the Gaza Health Ministry and international organizations, the overall drug deficit has reached 47%, while the shortage of medical consumables such as gauze, syringes, and platinum has reached about 58%. Cancer and blood disease drugs topped the deficit at 61%, resulting in a complete halt of treatment protocols for cancer patients. Laboratory reagents recorded the highest deficit at 85%, depriving doctors of the ability to diagnose critical cases. More than 350,000 patients suffer from the absence of essential medicines such as those for diabetes, blood pressure, crises, and maternal and child health drugs. Repeated targeting of drug storages threatens dialysis sessions due to the depletion of filters and dedicated solutions, in addition to postponing life-saving surgeries due to restrictions on entering equipment and spare parts since the beginning of the year, causing medical equipment to malfunction.

The Israeli army announced on Monday that it succeeded in targeting Amro Mohamed Rushdi Siraj, whom it described as a commander in the Supply and Maintenance Unit of the Hamas movement in Gaza City, during an attack targeting the Sabra area. The army said Siraj was responsible for supplying weapons to Hamas members inside Gaza City, noting that the operation also targeted another member of Hamas' military wing. The Israeli army stated that the targets had recently been involved in planning operations against its forces and Israeli civilians, and in working to restore the movement's capabilities, describing this as a violation of the ceasefire. Earlier on Monday, health officials in the Gaza Strip said two Israeli airstrikes killed at least five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip today. Medics said two people were killed and several others were injured when an Israeli airstrike hit a crowd near the Municipality Park in Gaza City, a densely populated area that hosts displaced families. Later in the day, medics said an Israeli airstrike hit a vehicle in Tel al-Hawa, west of Gaza City, resulting in the deaths of at least three people.

Israeli gunfire and air strikes have killed at least four people, including three children, in the Gaza Strip, health officials say. Subscribe now for unlimited access. or signup to continue reading Witnesses said Israeli warplanes fired at least 12 missiles near the Katiba area in the west of Gaza City, an area crowded with displaced families. At least three people - two children and a woman - were killed and several others wounded in the unusually heavy bombardment, medics said. Two vehicles were hit and reduced to twisted wreckage. In a statement on Tuesday, the Israeli military said it struck several targets in the Gaza Strip in order to remove threats to Israeli security forces. Ismail Al-Thawabta, director of the Hamas-run Gaza government media office, said an Israeli special force had attempted to carry out an operation in Gaza City but was discovered during the mission. He said Israel then launched heavy air strikes involving more than 10 warplanes, killing and wounding several people. In a separate incident, medics said a girl, Israa Al-Hissi, was killed and two other people were wounded when Israeli forces operating east of Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza opened fire on the area. A US-backed ceasefire that took effect in October 2025 halted the large-scale fighting that had devastated the enclave, but it has not ended Israeli strikes. The military says such operations are intended to prevent attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups. Hamas accuses Israel of repeatedly violating the ceasefire and undermining efforts to advance a broader plan by US President Donald Trump to end the war. The plan includes further Israeli troop withdrawals from Gaza and the disarmament of Hamas. More than 1300 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire came into force last October, according to Gaza health officials. The Israeli military says four Israeli soldiers have been killed during the same period. "There is no ceasefire. There is not one good day in Gaza since October 7 (2023)," said Amjad Abu Abdo, a relative of one of the people who died in a strike on Monday. "I swear, we do not sleep from the sound of drones. You sleep scared of being hit," Abu Abdo added. Hamas-led fighters killed 1200 people during their cross-border attack into Israel on October 7, 2023, according to Israeli tallies. The Gazan health ministry says Israeli attacks have killed more than 73,000 Palestinians in the enclave since then. Australian Associated Press

By our second morning at the Khan Ein Karem Boutique Hotel, something had already begun to shift. Roi and Tomer, the hotel’s warm and attentive hosts, understand this quiet rhythm perfectly. Their hospitality philosophy is simple: Give visitors tranquility, space, and a nourishing breakfast, then let the valley do the rest. What Adi and I discovered over the weekend is that Ein Kerem’s deepest wellness offering isn’t the landscape alone but the remarkable concentration of people who have chosen to build their lives inside it. In a country navigating complex realities and social fractures, Ein Kerem holds an unusual number of individuals who have each developed their own philosophy of healing and chosen to share it openly with those who arrive. “It is a capsule of this multicultural, interreligious encounter that is so special and sadly almost doesn’t exist in Israel,” Roi told us over breakfast at the hotel’s inviting dining table. “Here, when you go out and start walking, you meet. You have no choice.” Meeting, as our weekend unfolded, turned out to be the most restorative act of all. Food for the soul: Café Itah On Friday morning, Adi and I made our way down the stone stairs to Café Itah – meaning “woman” in Aramaic – a courtyard kitchen that operates as a model of social healing and community hospitality. Our host, Moti Levi, a local contractor who lives a minimalist lifestyle in renovated buses in nearby Givat Ye’arim, founded the café as a social enterprise under the Tirosh Association. Its mission is to provide dignified, therapeutic employment for young women and teenage girls navigating personal crises, trauma, and institutionalization. The café also acts as a safety net for girls who age out of closed state welfare facilities at 18 and suddenly find themselves without shelter; Moti frequently steps in to give them a safe place to sleep. Head chef Amit spent 12 years managing kitchens in high-end catering and luxury hotels, including the King David Hotel, before reshaping her career around a double purpose. Under her direction, the café delivers a genuinely high-level culinary experience – zucchini latkes, rich shakshukas, house-made pestos, and hand-preserved lemons – but the quality of the food is ultimately a vehicle for something deeper. “I had no satisfaction in just working in a restaurant and serving food to a customer,” Amit said. “I wanted satisfaction in my heart at the end of the day – the satisfaction of doing something good for someone.” Of the kitchen itself, she added, “I am a very hyperactive person, and the kitchen is a place of creation to release that. The world of pastry and cooking is a therapeutic path.” This approach demands a forgiving business model. Amit gives the girls time and space to process crises and anxiety attacks, noting that “in any other restaurant, they wouldn’t give you the space; they would just kick you out.” Her guiding rule: “The customer is temporary… but for her, this is her life. My girls come before the customer.” Anchoring this support system is Avraham, a 60-year-old retired village resident who sits on a wooden bench in the courtyard each day between noon and 4 p.m. – a calm, steady figure the girls can sit beside to regulate their breathing when anxiety rises mid-shift. The impact runs deep. One young woman told us she’d once spent an entire year shut inside her home, paralyzed by depression; another said, “I never managed to hold a job for five days a week… but here it’s like family. You aren’t treated like a robot; you are seen as a human being first.” Sitting in the sun-kissed courtyard over this exceptional food, you understand that its therapeutic value is inseparable from the well-being of the hands that prepared it. The scribe of lost stories: Avshalom Eshel Between the village’s stone alleys and the ridge where the Music Center awaits, we met one of Ein Kerem’s most remarkable figures: Avshalom Eshel, who moves between the hassidic religious world and the creative world of arts as though they were never separate. Avshalom is officially a sofer stam – a traditional Jewish scribe who writes Torah scrolls, tefillin, and mezuzahs by hand. He playfully reinterprets the Hebrew acronym STAM as “Stories, Tricks, and Plots.” Outside his studio hangs a sign describing his daily mission: “Conductor of roads for lost stories.” Inside, he directs theatrical plays, including an upcoming production of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov’s The Seven Beggars. His own return to religion was sparked by reading Rabbi Nachman’s stories and falling in love with a religious woman who happened to sit beside him on a bus – an encounter that led to their marriage and six children. His calligraphy, he explained, is a spiritual remedy for the modern age. Teivah in Hebrew means both “ark” and “word.” Since a physical ark can no longer shelter a person from the flood of modern noise and anxiety, Avshalom crafts tiny “arks” out of positive words, writing them by hand on parchment to give to visitors as a portable refuge. Every person, he teaches, is like a single letter in a Torah scroll; if even one letter is cracked or missing, the whole scroll is invalid. “This is our medicine,” he said, “to return and be parts of one big story.” That philosophy runs through his workspace: a building that houses a secular yeshiva downstairs and a joyful, “hippie” Orthodox synagogue upstairs. Before we spoke, he picked up his sitar – a stringed musical instrument – letting its resonant tones settle the room, then pressed our personalized parchment tags into our hands. Because Avshalom lives intentionally offline and refuses a smartphone, our visit ended with him offering his wife’s WhatsApp number – a fitting close for a man whose life is devoted to genuine human connection. Sacred soundscapes and open tables On Friday afternoon, we visited the Eden-Tamir Music Center on the village’s upper ridge, welcomed by Prof. Rami Eden (son of co-founder Bracha), Dr. Dror Semmel, and longtime host Saleh. Founded in 1968 by the piano duo Bracha Eden and Alexander Tamir, the center has anchored Jerusalem’s classical music scene for nearly six decades. Its intimate 120-seat hall houses a rare fortepiano – a replica of an 1819 Viennese instrument built by master craftsman Paul McNulty – whose lighter, softer sound lets us hear Beethoven and Schubert nearly as their first salon audiences did, without the volume of a modern grand piano. The center still hosts chamber concerts every Saturday morning and biweekly Friday performances for young Israeli artists. During our Shabbat walk, we found a striking blend of art and tradition at the Jewish House, the local Chabad House run by Rabbi Shaya and Nechemi Kedelburg. Housed in a restored stone building that doubles as an art gallery and vintage boutique, it felt unlike any conventional Chabad house – artistic, localized, and rooted in Ein Kerem’s bohemian character. Over a long Shabbat conversation, we watched secular artists, traditional residents, and international travelers share the same table, a quiet proof that belonging can be one of the most powerful forms of harmony. The gathering table On Thursday evening, we dined at the Ein Kerem Courtyard Restaurant, one of the village’s few kosher establishments, over baked cauliflower with tehina and cheese-stuffed phyllo. The meal set the tone for how Ein Kerem functions as a crossroads where social boundaries dissolve. On any afternoon, its limestone alleys host Christian priests beside barefoot anthroposophical families, secular tech workers, and haredi (ultra-Orthodox) families who’ve driven in from central Jerusalem for a change of pace. That spirit peaks every Thursday night in the courtyard of Avshalom’s building, where wooden tables go up under the open sky for 80 to 100 people – an evening of cholent, live theater, and acoustic jam sessions that bypass political and religious divides entirely. Among the regulars is a woman who drives every week from Ofakim, in the South, just to be part of it. As the weekend closed, Adi and I sat on the Khan Hotel’s upper balcony watching the sun cast long shadows across the terraces, our Shabbat table catered by chef Eli Fadida of Beit HaKerem and the celebrated Pasha in Talpiot. Community, it turns out, is the oldest and most effective wellness intervention. Ein Kerem doesn’t offer it packaged; it offers it in the raw, unscheduled way of a village where the streets are too narrow to walk without meeting someone. The healers, scribes, chefs, musicians, and rabbis who have built their lives here are its greatest therapeutic asset. We left rested, fed, and quietly altered, carrying what the valley gave us back into the city above – the way water carries minerals from ancient stone. Part I of this piece appeared in August 7’s issue. Read it here.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul pledged on Friday to increase security for synagogues and Jewish communities across the state ahead of the High Holidays, during remarks she delivered at Shabbat services at the Central Synagogue in Manhattan. "If you need more money, if you need more protection, I will send the New York State Police here," Hochul said. "We will fortify this place not only now, but certainly ahead of the approaching High Holidays." Her remarks came about two weeks after a man broke into services at the synagogue and attacked a worshiper and a security guard. Hochul said that as the leader of a state home to the largest Jewish population in the world outside Israel, she feels a "special responsibility to use my voice and my platform and say: There is no place for hate in New York State." She added that "an attack on one is an attack on all of us." The governor's remarks came amid tensions between her and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani over issues related to Israel and antisemitism. Last week, when asked whether Mamdani's anti-Israel rhetoric could create discomfort among New York's Jewish community, Hochul called on him to focus more on running the city and less on Israel. She also pledged to stand firmly against antisemitism. Manhattan's Central Synagogue attacker charged with hate crimes The location Hochul chose for her remarks carried particular significance. About two weeks ago, a man broke into Shabbat services at the Central Synagogue, attacked a worshiper and a security guard, and caused property damage. He was later charged with hate crimes. Mamdani condemned the attack at the time, calling it "horrifying," and said that every New Yorker must be able to practice their religion without fear of violence. Hochul also addressed the rise in antisemitism since the October 7 massacre and spoke about her decision to travel to Israel immediately after the attack. She said that in September 2023, three weeks before the massacre, she convened Jewish leaders and organizations to discuss the rise in antisemitism. After October 7, she said, "I had to go there," in part because denial of what happened had already begun. "I needed to be there so that I could be the person who came back and told the truth," she said. The governor described the difficult scenes she witnessed in Kfar Aza and said the situation has only worsened in the years since. "The attacks, the fear, the anxiety, the cruelty of the words that are being said," she said. Hochul cites Oct. 7 as reason for houses of worship buffer zone push Hochul said this was one of the reasons she pushed to pass legislation establishing a 50-foot buffer zone around houses of worship, aimed at protecting worshipers from harassment and protests outside sacred sites. Toward the end of her remarks, Hochul spoke directly to the Jewish community, saying: "I am here for you. You are my family." Although Rosh Hashanah is approaching, Hochul referenced the story of Purim and Queen Esther, adding: "If necessary, I will be your Esther, every time you need me."

When I brief diplomats, foreign journalists, and visiting dignitaries on the nuances behind the scenes of the October 27 election, they are usually the ones who ask the questions, and I do my best to provide the answers. But there is one question I make sure to ask them: “Are you paying as close attention to the particulars of what’s happening with the upcoming Palestinian elections?” I ask that, in part, because there is plenty being reported about our election that doesn’t make Israel look particularly good. This is not the first election where our politicians look to score points with constituents without taking into account how bad it looks abroad, but they have been especially careless lately, and it’s not the international media’s fault for noticing, doing their job, and telling the world. The foreign press has reported extensively on Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben-Gvir recently, specifically focusing on his calls for nightly killings of terrorists in Gaza, his advocacy for the death penalty, his actions regarding the Temple Mount, and the resulting global condemnations. “Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has posted a gloating video of the construction of a gallows complex where Palestinians convicted of terror offenses – but not Jewish extremists accused of similar crimes – will be hanged,” The Guardian reported in an article that passed the test and scrutiny of pro-Israel media watchdogs. The Los Angeles Times had a headline “Israel’s Ben-Gvir publicly advocates killing ‘30 to 40’ people in Gaza nightly.” You can blame the newspaper for using the word “people” when he clearly meant terrorists, not innocent civilians. But it was Ben-Gvir himself who referred to “people not worthy of life” and added, “They are not even people. I am giving them a compliment by calling them people.” Defense Minister Israel Katz suddenly became a household name internationally when he was running in the Likud primary and tried to impress hawkish party members before he accepted a reserved slot. The Telegraph reported on his campaign videos that “celebrated airstrikes,” noting their repeated use of the word “boom.” ABC News and the Associated Press were among the media outlets that covered his announcements about expanding operations in Gaza. The Turkey expert Fox News quoted in an article about recent threats from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Katz said: “Turkey is chalking up the increasingly escalatory climate between Turkey and Israel to election antics/propaganda by Netanyahu.” Tough talk is not the purview of only one side of the political map. Yashar leader Gadi Eisenkot’s definitive statement rejecting the establishment of a Palestinian state last Saturday was picked up by several international media outlets, which reported his comments as a major development in the lead-up to an election being portrayed internationally as one candidate who is too right-wing against another who is even more too right-wing. Al Jazeera’s Simon Speakman Cordall questioned Israel’s ability to maintain its democracy, in a story headlined “Concerns Mount over Integrity of Israel’s Upcoming October elections.” Articles exclude Palestinian elections from coverage The article did not mention that the Palestinians are set to have an election a month later, and that if any democracy should be questioned, it’s theirs. After all, they haven’t had a parliamentary election since January 2006, and a presidential election a year before that. Expert on Palestinian politics Khaled Abu Toameh said the Palestinian race deserves the same scrutiny by the international media as Israel’s, but it isn’t getting it. “The foreign media is not paying enough attention to the preparations for the Palestinian election as much as they are paying attention to the Israeli election,” he lamented. “They talk about Ben-Gvir and radicals in Israel, but no one is covering Hamas and asking why they’re even allowed to run. If you ignore them, they’ll repeat their victory of 2006. They need to start sounding the alarm bells about that now.” Abu Toameh said he advises foreign media to pay attention to recent meetings in Cairo that worked on an “abnormal alliance” among a purported reformist in Mohammad Dahlan, Hamas, the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups. “This is the exact opposite of deradicalization,” Abu Toameh warned. “It’s empowering jihadists and terrorists responsible for Oct. 7.” He said recent polls predicting a massive victory for convicted mass murderer Marwan Barghouti in the presidential election set for 2027 “speak volumes about the sentiments in Palestinian society.” No less of a problem, the fact that more than 200 international cultural figures signed a petition calling for “Freedom for Marwan” indicates that the international media is not educating the world about who this unrepentant terrorist leader really is. The list of signatories has the usual suspects like notoriously antisemitic actor Mark Ruffalo. But it also includes Jewish singer Paul Simon, who has come here and spoken fondly of the Jewish state. Abu Toameh said he noticed Arabic media outlets promoting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s son Yasser as a potential successor and rising star since Yasser won a recent election to the central committee of the Fatah Party, which his father leads. “They are not treating him as Yair Netanyahu is treated,” he said. “They are elevating his status as a respected leader. This is what makes the PA discredited among its people and strengthens Hamas.” A Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research poll published this week found that 79% of Palestinians want Abbas to resign, so if the presidential election actually takes place, someone else will apparently take over and potentially stay in office for a very long time, like Abbas and Yasser Arafat before him. The dangers of Barghouti or Hamas head Khalil al-Hayya being elected and taking control cannot be understated. That means that while our elections are undoubtedly important, the Palestinian election could end up being significantly more consequential and fateful for the future of Israel, the wider Middle East, and the world. The time has come for the international media to widen its microscope, which tends to be focused exclusively on Israel. The writer served as the chief political correspondent and analyst of The Jerusalem Post and executive director of HonestReporting and has lectured about Israel in all 50 US states.

Iran will immediately reciprocate if the US returns to its commitments under an interim deal signed in June, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Bishkek, the Iranian Student News Agency reported. “I am stating clearly that if the US returns to its commitments under the Memorandum of Understanding, the Islamic Republic of Iran will immediately reciprocate," Pezeshkian was quoted as saying by state media. Several world leaders are also at the summit, held in Kyrgyzstan's capital, including Russia's Vladimir Putin, India's Narendra Modi, China's Xi Jinping, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Pezeshkian arrived in Kyrgyzstan with the message that Tehran was aiming for diplomacy over armed conflict with the United States, saying this during several sideline meetings with different leaders. On Monday, he told Modi on the sidelines of the summit that continued war was in no one's interest, and that dialogue and cooperation were the way to resolve existing problems. According to Iran's semi-official Mehr News, Pezeshkian met Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, and his agenda also included meeting Kyrgyzstan's deputy cabinet chairman, several participating leaders, and the presidents of Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan on the sidelines of the summit. When talking about previous agreements, Pezeshkian was referring to an interim deal signed in June between Tehran and Washington in efforts to end the war, which started with US and Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28. The deal quickly unraveled amid disagreements over its implementation. Tehran has repeatedly said it will allow free navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for global oil supplies, only if Washington implements the terms of the agreement. Pezeshkian's contact with Mojtaba Khamenei Pezeshkian has given differing accounts in recent weeks about his access to Khamenei, who has not been seen in public since he succeeded his father in the role in March. On July 21, the president said interactions with the supreme leader were "increasing day by day", but in early August he said communicating with Khamenei was "very difficult." The late July meeting covered military affairs and the economy, including securing resources, managing foreign exchange and energy use, and economic ties with foreign partners, according to state media. In May, state media also reported that Pezeshkian had met Khamenei for several hours, in what was then the first publicly reported meeting between the two since Khamenei became supreme leader. Khamenei was reportedly seriously injured in the February 28 strike that killed his father and predecessor, Ali Khamenei, on the first day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. He had also generally kept a low public profile before becoming supreme leader.

Adidas is facing boycott calls over a campaign featuring former Israeli soldier and amputee Shalev Biton. Biton lost his left leg in May 2021 while serving in the IDF’s Nahal Brigade during Operation Guardian of the Walls. He recently partnered with Adidas to promote the sports brand’s in-store “single shoe” service campaign, which is designed to help make footwear more accessible to those living with a limb difference. The service offers qualifying customers the option of purchasing only their required shoe at 50% of the listed price, rather than having to purchase both shoes. The campaign posters were only used within Israel Ten other disabled athletes joined Biton for the series of advertisements for Adidas Israel. The posters were not used outside of Israel. However, over the last few days, anti-Israel figures – especially Spanish actor Javier Bardem – noticed Biton’s involvement and amplified it on social media, resulting in mass calls for a boycott. Many falsely claimed that Biton was a soldier during the current Gaza war. Project Unite Humanity released a cartoon saying, "Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world. Adidas chose an IOF soldier." Other activist accounts have posted graphics encouraging people to throw their Adidas shoes in the trash, and some activists have shared videos of them throwing away their running shoes. Major pro-Palestine advocacy accounts such as Europe Palestine Network and The Times of Palestine then released a joint statement titled “Adidas partners with criminals, ignores victims.” “Adidas featured former Israeli soldier Shalev Biton. Meanwhile, thousands of Palestinians have suffered amputations during Israel’s genocide, including 10-year-old Rateb Abu Qleiq. An Israeli air strike killed his mother and brother and cost him his right leg. With proper prosthetics unavailable, he fashioned one from a plastic sewage pipe. “Adidas made an Israeli soldier the face of inclusion while Gaza’s child amputees remain largely unseen,” it said. Responding to the campaign against him, Biton said he has “been hit by an absolutely insane wave of hatred and reports from all over the world” amounting to tens of thousands of social media posts, videos and messages. “Some of the biggest pro-Palestinian pages in the world, with millions of followers and millions of likes and shares, have been posting about me again and again, and the abuse and reports just don’t stop.” He asked his supporters to share his page, invite people to come and follow, and help him strengthen this space. “There are millions over there. I want to feel that you’re here with me,” he said. Biton did not respond to The Jerusalem Post's request for comment.

A Hamas terrorist who took part in the October 7 massacre was killed in a targeted air strike in Gaza on Saturday, officials today revealed. Abd al-Fattah Abu al-Eish was a commander in the Nukhba Force – the Hamas “special forces” unit – who infiltrated the northwest Negev as part of the atrocities in which 1,200 men, women and children were murdered. Hamas operative Raed Adel Mohammed Alyan was also killed in the air strike. Precision-guided munitions and aerial surveillance were used to reduce the risk to noncombatants. Also on Saturday, the IDF struck a Hamas commander in the Deir al-Balah area in the central Gaza Strip while he was hiding within the compound of Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital, the military said. The terrorist recently advanced attacks on IDF troops and Israeli civilians and was targeted to remove the threat, the army said. He was said to to be involved in efforts to restore Hamas’s capabilities, in systematic violation of the ceasefire. An official statement said: “Recently, the terrorists advanced terror attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians and operated to rehabilitate the capabilities of the terrorist organization, in systematic violation of the ceasefire. “The strike was conducted in order to remove the threat posed.” The IDF criticised Hamas’s “cynical use of humanitarian infrastructure and its systematic embedding within medical facilities to advance and carry out terrorist activity.” It relayed that a warning was conveyed to medical authorities throughout Gaza on Aug. 27 regarding the cessation of the use of medical facilities for terrorist purposes. “It was made clear that the IDF will act against any threat should such activity continue,” the military noted. Steps were taken to mitigate the risk to civilians during the strike, including the use of precise munitions and aerial surveillance, the IDF said. On Friday, the IDF killed two Hamas terrorists in Gaza: Nukba Force company commander Hai Fakhri Mazloum and a sniper named Hassan Zidan Hassan Deiri, the military said. Deiri and Mazloum were also involved in the trafficking and supply of weapons to Hamas terrorists.

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GAZA CITY: Hamas called on Arab and Muslim countries on Friday to oppose a proposal from two Israeli ministers to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip and send them abroad. "Escalating statements by ministers in the Israeli government regarding the continued adoption of plans to displace the Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip represent an extremely dangerous development," Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem said in a statement. He called on "Arab and Islamic countries to take serious and unified action to confront these plans and adopt effective positions and measures to thwart them". Israeli far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir laid out a plan on Thursday that aims to see the departure of 250,000 Palestinians from Gaza in the first year, followed by the rest of the roughly two million residents over the following six years. His remarks came a day after Defence Minister Israel Katz said Israel was ready to remove Palestinians from Gaza by sea and land but was waiting for the United States, which he said was discussing places for the population to go. Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich earlier proposed also removing Palestinians from the West Bank, where Israeli settlers have been carrying out a growing number of attacks. Forced displacement of civilians in occupied territory is considered a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Almost the entire population of Gaza has already been displaced internally in relentless Israeli bombing since the October 7, 2023 attacks led by Hamas, which were the deadliest ever against Israel and killed mostly civilians. The Israeli remarks come ahead of October 27 elections in which polls show a tight race for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has brought once shunned far-right ministers into his cabinet. US President Donald Trump stunned the world early in his second term by proposing removing Palestinians from Gaza and turning the rubble-strewn Mediterranean territory into a luxury resort. He backtracked after pushback from countries including Egypt, the only country other than Israel to border Gaza.

In AI-made Likud ad, Mamdani, Khamenei and Erdogan prematurely celebrate Netanyahu’s defeat Campaign clip posted by Netanyahu shows New York City mayor organizing a party with Muslim leaders, only to be sorely disappointed by the premier’s election victory Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday published an AI-generated video grouping New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani with Israel’s geopolitical adversaries, including Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei. The campaign video, which was posted on Netanyahu’s X account and labeled as AI-generated, opens with a digitally animated version of Mamdani speaking on the phone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “Erdogan, bro, are you coming to the party of The Fall of Netanyahu elections?” the AI Mamdani asks the Turkish leader in English. “Of course!” the Erdogan avatar replies in Turkish. “I am coming with what remains of Mojtaba.” The video then cuts to Khamenei, who has not appeared publicly since being wounded in US-Israeli airstrikes in late February, lying in a hospital bed with both legs broken. “Finally, we will bring Netanyahu down!” he says in Persian. אויבי ישראל רוצים שנתניהו יפול. אסור לתת להם לנצח ???????? pic.twitter.com/7aOL0Xlxu3 — Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) September 4, 2026 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas then appears, saying, “I’m already on my way. I’m five minutes away from Kfar Saba,” a central Israeli city near the West Bank. The AI-generated video then shifts to a television screen reading, “2026 Elections: The Full Results,” with Netanyahu seen defeating his main opponent, Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot. Most polls in recent weeks have shown Eisenkot holding a narrow lead over the premier, but neither of the blocs they lead attaining a Knesset majority. “Oh, shit. Cancel the party,” Mamdani says with a frown. “I’m going back to my bunker,” Khamenei adds, before Erdogan silently ends the call. “They want Netanyahu to fall. Don’t let them win,” a voiceover says, as pictures of the four synthetically depicted leaders appear on the screen. The same message appeared last month on a campaign billboard in Tel Aviv, though Abbas was then replaced by Naim Qassem, the leader of the Hezbollah terror group. Mamdani has been an outspoken critic of Israel and has called Netanyahu a “war criminal,” initially vowing to arrest the premier should he visit New York City. אל תתנו להם לנצח pic.twitter.com/JgvJXAPtia — Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) August 16, 2026 The mayor later acknowledged, however, that the city lacked the authority to arrest Netanyahu on the basis of a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court over allegations of war crimes in Gaza. Netanyahu has repeatedly highlighted Mamdani’s criticism and has said he plans to visit the city for the United Nations General Assembly later this month. Critics of Mamdani’s remarks about Netanyahu had predicted that the premier would leverage them in his reelection campaign. Netanyahu also posted a video montage last month showing Mamdani calling him a “war criminal,” followed by the same campaign message featured in Friday’s AI-generated video and on the billboard. Mamdani has yet to comment publicly on Netanyahu’s campaign messaging against him. Netanyahu has in the past also published campaign ads linking Eisenkot to Arab political leaders, namely Mansour Abbas of Ra’am, claiming his rival would be unable to form a government without the support of Arab parties. The Times of Israel Community.

Ditching Hendel, Zionist Home chair Chili Tropper merges party into Eisenkot’s Yashar Israel Prize laureate Adi Altschuler also joins Yashar, tapped as candidate for education minister; Ben Gvir publishes Otzma Yehudit slate, prompting disgruntled MK to resign Zionist Home chair Chili Tropper folded his party into election frontrunner Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party on Sunday, after terminating his short-lived alliance with Yoaz Hendel’s Reservists party, two days before the deadline for parties to submit their candidate lists for the October 27 election. Tropper will now be placed in the sixth spot on the Yashar Knesset slate, while his Zionist Home colleagues, bereaved family members Shira Shapira and Elyasaf Peretz, will receive realistic spots further down the list. According to various reports, Shapira is expected to be placed tenth on the list, and Peretz will be placed either in the 20th or 21st spot. The alliance will be a complete merger rather than a technical agreement, meaning Tropper will not be able to split his faction off from Yashar once elected. Tropper, who stepped down from Benny Gantz’s Blue and White in May, joined forces with Hendel this summer and established the Zionist Home-Reservists just last month, with the stated goal of helping establish as broad a “Zionist government” as possible. But the party failed to rise in the polls and was hovering around the 3.25% electoral threshold. Both Tropper and Hendel have said they won’t agree to be included in a government that relies on the Arab Ra’am party, but some reports said Eisenkot wasn’t interested in joining forces with Hendel due to fear the latter won’t accept a minority government propped up externally by Ra’am — indicating that Tropper may be open to such a possibility. Hendel, on Sunday, attributed the decision to part ways to the “complicated political reality,” but said the pair’s “ideological partnership” remained intact. Yashar hailed the alliance with Tropper as an opportunity to “strengthen cohesion within Israeli society.” The Zionist Home merger into Eisenkot’s party was finalized as the Yashar candidate list began to take shape in earnest, ahead of an expected announcement of its finalized slate on Monday. Yashar has emerged as the dominant party in the opposition in recent polls, running neck-and-neck with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, or slightly ahead of it, at around 26 seats. Naftali Bennett’s and Yair Lapid’s B’Yachad alliance, with which Tropper also held talks, has meanwhile slid to around 14 seats. The party was officially announcing its Knesset slate on Sunday evening. Eisenkot also welcomed Israel Prize-winning educator and social entrepreneur Adi Altschuler into Yashar on Sunday, and named her as the party’s candidate for education minister if it manages to form a government. She appeared to be the first member of Yashar’s growing electoral slate whom the party has publicly designated as its candidate for a specific ministerial portfolio. “Adi is one of Israel’s leading figures in education and social affairs,” Eisenkot said, citing her more than two decades of experience. “I am pleased that Adi accepted my request to be Yashar’s candidate for education minister in the government we will form.” Altschuler, 39, founded the Krembo Wings youth movement and the Zikaron BaSalon initiative, which organizes intimate Holocaust remembrance gatherings in private homes. She also co-founded Inclu, a network of inclusive schools and kindergartens. She was awarded the Israel Prize this year for her contributions to Israeli society and education, and received the Presidential Medal of Honor in 2023. “We are on the cusp of change, at a historic moment, and I do not have the privilege of standing on the sidelines,” Altschuler said, thanking Eisenkot for the “meaningful offer” to serve as education minister in a government led by him. “We will work to create a united society here and a high-quality, healthy education system that is good for children, families and all educational staff,” she added. Left out in the cold, Hendel announced a last-minute alliance with economist Yaron Zelekha. Zelekha, a former Finance Ministry official, has been on the ballot twice in the past with his New Economic Party, but didn’t come close to the electoral threshold either time, winning just 0.79% and 0.29% of the vote in 2021 and 2022, respectively. He promises to “fight tycoons and the cost of living,” and has pledged to advance “full universal service,” a reference to military and national service. Hours after that announcement, a poll by the Kan public broadcaster showed the Hendel-Zelekha merger passing the electoral threshold and getting 4 Knesset seats, complicating the potential election math with a non-aligned party. The pro-Netanyahu bloc was predicted to get 52 seats, the anti-Netanyahu bloc 51, and the Arab parties 13, meaning it would be tough for anyone to muster a 61-strong majority coalition. According to the Kan public broadcaster, Hendel was also holding talks with Gantz and former chair of the now-defunct Yamina party, Ayelet Shaked, about possibly bringing them into the fold as well. Hendel was formerly a member of Gantz’s Blue and White and National Unity parties before forming a brief and unsuccessful political alliance with Shaked that fell apart ahead of the November 2022 election. However, later on Sunday evening, Shaked declared she will not run in the upcoming election, lamenting in a Facebook post that she had hoped the post-October 7 reality would end the dynamic of “two blocs that in my view are dismantling the country,” but has now concluded that a cross-bloc broad government “is impossible in the current election.” Disgruntled Otzma Yehudit MK resigns over placement on list Meanwhile, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir announced the candidate slate for his Otzma Yehudit party on Sunday, prompting the resignation of a disgruntled MK, Zvika Fogel, after he was placed lower than he expected. The makeup of the list reflected the shifting sphere of influence within the ultranationalist party, as Likud rebel Tally Gotliv was placed in the number two spot, directly below Ben Gvir. Gotliv’s tumultuous move to Otzma Yehudit, announced last week, came after the firebrand lawmaker performed worse than she had hoped in the Likud primary and blamed Netanyahu for deliberately harming her chances. The third and fourth spots on the Otzma Yehudit list went to Negev, Galilee and National Resilience Minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf, and Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu. MK Limor Son Har-Melech was given the fifth spot on the list, and MK Yitzhak Kroizer followed in sixth. The decision marked a slight promotion for the pair, who were respectively the party’s sixth- and seventh-ranked candidates in the 2022 election. It was also a sign of their growing prominence within the party, particularly in the case of Son Har-Melech, who has emerged as one of Otzma Yehudit’s highest-profile lawmakers and sponsored a series of controversial legislative initiatives, including the law introducing the death penalty for terrorists, a priority of Ben Gvir’s that passed in March. Their promotion came at the expense of Fogel, however, and the formerly fifth-ranked candidate was pushed to at least seventh place. The party is projected to win seven to nine seats. Fogel, who chairs the Knesset National Security Committee, announced his resignation shortly after the list was publicized, saying he would continue working on behalf of the country “in any way that is available to me.” He did not specify whether he intends to join another party, run for the Knesset through another framework, or leave electoral politics altogether. The Times of Israel Community.

Kushner: Israel acting ‘a little irrational’ on Gaza due to upcoming election US envoy says Israel and US agree on ‘end state for Gaza’; father and daughter reportedly killed in strike in Gaza City, IDF spokesperson says it targeted terror operative US special envoy Jared Kushner said on Sunday that next month’s Knesset election has made Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government act “a little irrational” when it comes to Gaza, amid Israel’s rejection of the Board of Peace’s proposal to disarm Hamas and ongoing strikes on the enclave. “I think we agree with the Israelis on the end state for Gaza,” Kushner said at a press appearance during a visit to Kyiv, where he was taking part in negotiations over the war in Ukraine. “They just have crazy elections, and that makes them a little irrational in certain regards,” he added. The US has been trying to advance the Board of Peace’s plan to decommission the weapons of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza, to be paired with an Israeli withdrawal from the Strip. However, Israel’s opposition to the plan has led to its stalling, and the terror group is unlikely to disarm before the Knesset vote on October 27. Amid the opposition, Defense Minister Israel Katz and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir have both called for plans to facilitate the emigration of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, drawing criticism from Muslim countries, who said such plans contradict the “firm rejection of forced displacement,” in the US-backed October 2025 peace plan for Gaza. Katz said last week Israel was prepared to facilitate departures by land, sea and air, but acknowledged that no countries were currently willing to absorb Gazans on the scale envisioned. Meanwhile, Hamas-run media outlets in Gaza reported Sunday that an 8-year-old girl was killed and several people were wounded in an IDF strike on a vehicle in the al-Nasr neighborhood of Gaza City. Mohamed Abu Selmia, head of Shifa Hospital, the enclave’s largest medical facility, said the airstrike hit a vehicle in western Gaza City, killing Youssef Akila and his daughter, Wafaa, and wounding six others. The Times of Israel could not independently verify the information. #فيديو من مكان #القصف الإسرائيلي لسيارة في منطقة النصر غربي مدينة غزة pic.twitter.com/tZmoUeLVNf— غزة الآن – Gaza Now (@nowgnna) September 6, 2026 An Israeli military spokesperson said forces targeted a Hamas terror operative, and the military was still looking into the results of the attack. Despite the ongoing ceasefire, the military has pushed ahead with a campaign to kill every Gaza terrorist who was involved in the October 7, 2023, massacre which sparked the war in the Strip. Hamas-led terrorists invaded Israel on October 7, slaughtering some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 hostages. While Israel has acknowledged the campaign and vowed it would continue until the last of those involved are dead, the military has frequently justified the killings in terms of ceasefire violations. The Times of Israel Community.

New ‘Yelp guide for synagogues’ in Manhattan showcases Big Apple’s Jewish diversity Andrew Waxman attended a different service weekly for his book ‘My Year in New York Synagogues,’ and found much more to review than just the after-prayer kiddush spreads JTA — Reporting on the Jewish community is a lot like ornithology, except instead of birds, the goal is to describe the dress, habits and particular behavior that distinguish, say, the black-hat-wearing Monsey Orthodox from the Greater Philadelphia Jewish Renewalist. The careful shul-watcher notes their habitats, listens carefully to their songs and pays close attention to the things they eat. Andrew Waxman is a banking and risk management consultant, not a journalist or an ornithologist. Yet he’s written what amounts to a field guide to the varieties of being and praying Jewish in New York City. For “My Year in New York Synagogues,” he spent his Friday evenings and Shabbat mornings in 2025 visiting nearly every synagogue within walking distance of his home on the Upper West Side. That’s close to 50 synagogues, including most of Manhattan’s significant congregations. He also includes a few unclassifiable communities, such as a Jewish runners’ club and meetings of the Hostages Forum in Central Park. The result is part sociological field trip to New York City’s Jewish landscape and part love letter to the city’s Jewish variety: Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Moroccan, LGBTQ, Modern Orthodox, Haredi Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist and independent, to name a few. Written at a time when the city’s Jews are on edge, buffeted by waves of antisemitism and anti-Zionism, Waxman wants to remind them that the community’s diversity and creativity are its strength. “The impetus for the book really was just the awe in which I find myself around the number of amazing communities, and the diversity that we have in New York that I really think is unparalleled in Jewish history,” he said in an interview. His stops include familiar places like Central Synagogue, where Rabbi Angela Buchdahl’s Asian-American background, a talented musical ensemble and distinct Moorish Revival architecture helped Waxman, who describes himself as liberal Orthodox, see a “community very comfortable in its approach to spirituality and Judaism, forging its own path, authentic in its own way, distinctive even amongst all the differences that characterize so many New York communities.” At Or Zarua, the egalitarian Conservative synagogue on the Upper East Side, the intimate scale allowed a lively back-and-forth between rabbi and congregants during the Torah reading. Meanwhile, the cavernous Young Israel of the Upper West Side offered a surprise: A synagogue he remembered as nearly empty and elderly had, decades later, become packed with young Orthodox Jews. Less well known is the Koznitz. Behind an unmarked green door on the Upper West Side, Waxman found what a friend called the “speakeasy minyan.” There, 70 or so men gather for “no frills, fast and lay-led” Shabbat prayers in a congregation named after the 18th-century Koznitzer Rebbe and his descendants. “I realized that everybody feels that their community is special,” Waxman said. “And their community, whether it’s Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative, they feel proud and they feel very connected.” Waxman’s synagogue year included the bittersweet resolution of the Israeli hostage crisis, as well as the simmering aftermath of the campus protests and growing political tensions over Israel and antisemitism after October 7. Many congregations added prayers or other rituals remembering the hostages, efforts that crossed political lines. Other times, the ideological divides were stark. In Orthodox synagogues, Waxman heard rhetoric about Israel and the war that he described as “aggressive, jingoistic almost.” At the Orthodox Fifth Avenue Synagogue, one member of the “Kiddish Club” joked about Upper West Side liberals and another proudly mentioned his apartment in Trump Tower. At the liberal independent B’nai Jeshurun, the rabbis’ remarks included concern for Palestinians as well as Israeli Jews. Few of those political discussions make it into his guidebook, however. If some congregations were seeing a growing contingent of anti-Zionists in the pews, for example, he doesn’t mention it. Waxman acknowledges that he sought to avoid labeling congregations by their politics. “It has been distressing to see political discord come between families and communities and I have no wish to put a pin on that,” he writes. Waxman tends to focus on the positive, ending each entry with a short description of the synagogues’ “strengths” and “distinctiveness.” In the admittedly very tiny genre of synagogue reviewing, others have been a little more pointed in their assessments. London’s Jewish Chronicle used to run reviews by Secret Shulgoer that awarded (and took away) stars based on “warmth,” “welcome,” “decorum” and “service.” In the 1990s, Kol Ha’Ir, an alternative Jerusalem weekly, dispatched the sharp-tongued Jacky Levy to review synagogues as he would a play or restaurant; he once compared a Reform synagogue to a church. More recently, David A.M. Wilensky of the Northern California Jewish weekly took a journalistic approach in his “Jew in the Pew” column, offering his own observations and quoting congregants on their impressions, positive and sometimes negative, about their Bay Area synagogues. Waxman’s goal appears more boosterish than critical or journalistic. He sees his ideal reader as someone who has just moved to the city and is looking for a spiritual home. Anticipating their criteria, he describes not only the prayers and sermons but the people, clothes, melodies, architecture and conversation. And, yes, the kiddush. He had initially joked with a friend that the book might simply be about kiddushes, the receptions that follow most Saturday morning Shabbat services. Do they serve meat? Will it be enough food to count as lunch? Who showed up “JFK” — just for kiddush? But the food turned out to be more than comic relief. Kiddush, Waxman said, is where community happens. People who may not see one another during the week reconnect. They talk about their children, their problems, who’s getting married, who might be ill. And he suspects that kiddush has become competitive. At Altneu, a new Orthodox synagogue that broke away from Park East Synagogue in 2022, Waxman found a bartender, tequila and an impressive selection of whisky. He notes that other Orthodox synagogues in the area now regularly offer meat kiddushes, suggesting that congregations are using food to lure and hold on to members. As for clothes, Waxman grew up in an Orthodox synagogue in Manchester, England, where the congregation president and other leaders wore top hats. The custom persists at The Jewish Center on the Upper West Side, where the rabbis and officers wear top hats and morning suits between Sukkot and Shavuot. Elsewhere, especially but not exclusively at non-Orthodox synagogues, the codes have loosened: Reflecting a similar change in corporate life, men have doffed their jackets and ties; women often swap skirts and dresses for slacks. Waxman hadn’t attended a Reform service before setting out on his grand tour, and he said that the experience changed him. Himself a member of Darkhei Noam, a “partnership minyan” that combines Orthodox ritual with expanded roles for women, he appreciated how the Reform congregations included Hebrew selectively but intentionally in their prayers. He admired congregations like Romemu, which resists easy denominational categorization, for their willingness to bend the traditional service structure — to go “off piste,” as he put it — rather than treat the prayer book as a script that must be followed exactly. Waxman may have set out to write a Yelp for synagogues, but the project came to mean more. In addition to a sense of abundance, he found a spirit of hospitality. Currently working on a project in Mexico City, he noted how synagogues there won’t admit strangers — even the author of a book on New York synagogues — unless they sign up in advance. 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Democracy Dies in Darkness By Associated Press Iran’s supreme leader called on Muslim countries to stand together against Israel’s Shin Bet said it had evacuated the prime minister’s oldest son from the U.S. following a threat. And an Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed at least two Palestinians, including a 3-year-old, authorities said. Here’s a look at the latest developments Sunday in the Iran's Khamenei urges Muslim nations to 'confront' enemies Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, urged rulers of Muslim nations to “know your real enemy, understand its plans and confront it,” and called the U.S. and Israel enemies of all Islamic nations, the official IRNA news agency reported. Six months after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, killing Khamenei’s father and other senior leaders, The war has exposed divisions in the Muslim world after Iran struck targets in neighboring Gulf Arab countries and restricted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran has opposed the U.S. military presence in the region. Netanyahu son evacuated from US over 'significant' threat Israel’s Shin Bet security agency says it urgently evacuated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s oldest son from the United States due to a threat against him. In a brief statement obtained Sunday, the Shin Bet confirmed there had been a “significant threat” to Yair Netanyahu. It did not elaborate. But the prime minister told an Israeli TV station last week that Iran had tried to kill one of his sons. His office declined to comment Sunday. Yair Netanyahu moved to Miami in 2023 and remained out of the country for most of the time while Israel was at war in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. He has often served as an unofficial adviser to his father while sometimes sparking controversy over his attacks on critics on social media. A tanker ship is struck in the Strait of Hormuz A monitoring agency run by the British military says an unknown projectile struck a tanker ship on Saturday north of Khasab, Oman, in the Strait of Hormuz. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Organization said the ship had been moving inbound and no casualties or environmental impact had been reported. It cited unspecified military authorities. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. NBC says settlers attack journalists in West Bank Settlers attacked an NBC crew in the central West Bank on Saturday as they were interviewing a Palestinian woman who said she’d been driven out of her house, the network said. Correspondent Matt Bradley, two other crew members and the woman were treated for injuries, NBC said, giving no details about them. NBC shared footage showing masked settlers approaching the crew with sticks and beating their vehicles. Israel’s military said it was “aware of reports of Palestinian injuries, including a Palestinian woman who sustained non-life-threatening injuries.” It did not comment on the attack on the NBC crew. Israel’s prime minister issued a rare condemnation Saturday after a wave of violence by settlers in the West Bank. Netanyahu has come under U.S. criticism for the attacks. And on Sunday, Netanyahu in an interview with Israeli broadcaster Channel 14 described the violent settlers as “a small handful of people, usually young people who come with all kinds of hardships.” He said he wants “to strengthen the settlement” in the West Bank and that violent settlers should leave that task to the government, saying their involvement “harms the settlement project. It slanders us in the world.” Settlers seized a British activist, lawyer says Israeli settlers seized a British activist from a Palestinian village in the West Bank on Saturday and locked him in a shed before turning him over to police, his lawyer said Sunday. It was not clear what led to his capture. Settlers alleged Finn Joughin assaulted a child, which lawyer Inbar Shaked Vardi denied. Settlers pointed to a video where the activist uses his body in an apparent attempt to block a settler boy from passing through a fence. Vardi said the video shows he was trying to protect the village. “Without any hearing, the police has decided to move him to deportation, which just shows that this entire case has been political in the first place,” Vardi said later, adding that Joughin would likely be deported Sunday night. A spokesperson for the U.K. government said embassy officials have raised the case with Israeli authorities. Israeli strike kills 2 Palestinians in Gaza, including a child An Israeli strike hit a group of people in the western part of Deir al-Balah, killing a 3-year-old and a man who Israel’s military called a Hamas operative. It said he had “posed an immediate threat,” without providing evidence. Another Palestinian was wounded, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the casualties. Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israeli fire has killed at least 1,318 Palestinians since a fragile October ceasefire deal attempted to halt more than two years of war between Israel and Hamas. The ministry, part of the Hamas-led government, maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. It does not give a breakdown of civilians and militants. Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani ministers will meet Turkey says it will host senior officials from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan on Monday for the first meeting since the Muslim-majority countries Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, arrived in Turkey on Sunday, the military said, giving no details. Pakistan earlier said Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar had also traveled to Istanbul. ___ AP writers Samy Magdy in Cairo, Julia Frankel in Jerusalem and Natalie Melzer in Nahariya, Israel, contributed. * 1Comments !pixel

Three Palestinians, including a child, have been killed and three others wounded by Israeli attacks in Gaza, marking the latest violations of an ongoing ceasefire agreement, a medical source said. The source said a 3-year-old child and a young man were killed on Sunday when Israeli forces shelled a civilian gathering west of Deir al Balah in central Gaza. Two more people were wounded in the attack. A 21-year-old Palestinian also died of his wounds from Israeli shelling that targeted the Al-Amal neighbourhood, west of Khan Younis, in southern Gaza last week, the source added. According to the source, an elderly Palestinian woman was wounded by gunfire from Israeli vehicles near the Al-Maslakh area, southwest of Khan Younis. In northern Gaza, Israeli artillery fired several shells towards areas east of the Jabalia refugee camp and the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, local sources said. Israeli vehicles also opened heavy fire towards residential homes east of the Bureij refugee camp, according to local sources and eyewitnesses. The attacks come despite an earlier call by US President Donald Trump for Israel to halt its strikes on Gaza. In an August 17 interview with US broadcaster Fox News, Trump said that Israel “shouldn't be carrying out strikes in Gaza.” He also said Hamas had agreed to “give up its weapons” in line with a US-backed peace plan. Last October, a US-backed ceasefire agreement ostensibly went into effect in Gaza. Since then, however, repeated Israeli truce violations have killed at least 1,318 Palestinians across the enclave and have left more than 4,300 others wounded. Hundreds of bodies of slain Palestinians, meanwhile, have been pulled from under the rubble of destroyed infrastructure. According to Gaza’s health ministry, more than 73,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel’s Gaza genocide in October 2023.

Five more Palestinians have killed and several others wounded in Israeli attacks across Gaza, according to Palestinian medical sources, as Israeli forces continued military aggression despite a ceasefire that has been in place since October 2025. Three Palestinians were killed and several others wounded when an Israeli drone struck a civilian vehicle in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood of southern Gaza City, a medical source said on Monday. The bodies were taken to al-Shifa Hospital. Earlier, two Palestinians were killed and others injured in a drone strike targeting the entrance of a residential building near Gaza Municipality Park in central Gaza City, according to medical sources. Attacks reported across Gaza The violence was not limited to Gaza City. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its crews transported five fishermen wounded by fire from Israeli war boats off the Gaza City coast to al-Shifa Hospital and al-Saraya Field Hospital. Witnesses said Israeli naval forces fired on and shelled fishing boats while they were operating offshore. In northern Gaza, a 16-year-old boy was wounded when an Israeli drone dropped a bomb in Beit Lahia, according to a medical source at al-Shifa Hospital. In Khan Younis, three Palestinians were injured by gunfire and a drone-dropped bomb in the Hamad and Western Satr areas. Local sources and witnesses said Israeli military vehicles and drones also opened heavy fire toward homes in Hamad Residential City, injuring two people. The Palestinian Civil Defence said its crews extinguished a fire that broke out in two tents housing displaced people in Hamad after Israeli forces opened fire on the area. In Western Satr, a Palestinian was wounded by shrapnel from a drone-dropped bomb. A Palestinian woman was also critically injured after Israeli military vehicles opened heavy fire east of Deir al-Balah, amid artillery shelling, according to medical and local sources. Local sources reported demolitions of buildings and facilities in areas under Israeli control east of the city. Rising toll despite ceasefire The latest attacks came despite US President Donald Trump calling for an end to strikes on Gaza. In an August 17 interview with Fox News, Trump said Israel should not be carrying out strikes on the enclave. Since the ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, Israeli violations have killed 1,318 Palestinians and wounded 4,375 others, according to Gaza's health ministry. Rescue teams have also recovered hundreds of bodies from beneath the rubble. The ministry said Sunday that the overall Palestinian death toll from Israeli attacks in Gaza since October 2023 had reached about 73,454, with 174,486 people wounded.

The strike hits a car in the Al Nasr neighbourhood, west of Gaza City, according to a medical source. Two Palestinians, including a child, have been killed in an Israeli strike targeting a car in Gaza City, in the latest violation of an ongoing ceasefire deal, a medical source said. An Israeli drone struck the vehicle in the Al Nasr neighbourhood, west of Gaza City, on Sunday, the source, who requested anonymity, toldAnadolu. The attack was the latest Israeli violation of the ceasefire agreement in effect in Gaza since October 10, 2025. Israeli violations of the agreement have killed 1,344 Palestinians and wounded 4,464 others, according to the latest figures from Gaza’s Health Ministry. ​​​​​​​The Israeli army has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians and wounded over 174,000 in a brutal war that has destroyed or damaged much of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure. TRT World - Türkiye and 7 other nations condemn Israel's plans to displace Palestinians

Five Palestinians, including two children, were killed in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israeli attacks over the past 24 hours. Anadolu Agency reported this, citing medical sources. Attacks in Deir al-Balah and Gaza City According to medics, Israeli artillery struck a classroom housing displaced Palestinians in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. A seven-year-old child was killed. In the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, Israeli forces attacked Palestinians, killing two people. Another drone strike hit a civilian vehicle in Gaza City, killing Palestinian Youssef Aqila and his nine-year-old daughter Wafaa. Wafaa had started the new school year that day. After the attack, photographs circulated showing her schoolbooks and supplies scattered at the scene. Injuries and destruction Several people were injured in separate Israeli attacks in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City and the Shati refugee camp west of the city. Four injured people were taken to the Al-Shifa Medical Complex. More current news is available on the UA.News Telegram channel Telegram. At dawn, Israeli aircraft carried out two strikes on an evacuated commercial building near the “yellow line” in the Tuffah neighborhood. The former As-Sahra commercial complex was destroyed. According to medical sources, nine people were injured, including neighborhood residents and displaced persons who were nearby. According to Anadolu, Israeli reconnaissance drones also flew intensively at low altitude over a significant part of the western Gaza Strip. Casualty data According to the agency, these attacks were another violation of the ceasefire agreement in force in the Gaza Strip since October 10, 2025. According to the latest data from Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 1,344 Palestinians have been killed and another 4,464 injured as a result of violations of the agreement. Anadolu also reports that since the start of the war, the Israeli army has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, while more than 174,000 people have been injured. Read us on Telegram and Sends

U.N. expresses alarm over reports of a child killed and damage to a hospital in Gaza as a result of Israeli airstrikes The U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric voiced deep concern about the ongoing impact on civilians from the Israeli airstrikes and other military operations that occurred over the weekend in Gaza. At today’s daily briefing, Dujarric said: “We are especially concerned about reports that a child was among the victims, as well as damage to property at the Al-Aqsa Hospital complex in Deir al-Balah as a result of one of the strikes.” He emphasized that civilians and civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, must always be protected and that they must not be attacked or used for military purposes. Winter preparation The U.N. spokesman also noted that the United Nations and its humanitarian partners in Gaza continue to prepare for the rainy season. He added that municipalities in Gaza told colleagues over the weekend that they had identified needs related to flood risks across hundreds of areas throughout the sector. He warned humanitarian partners that efforts to support the population in preparation for winter face obstacles, including funding shortfalls, restrictions on entry of materials and quantities, and shortages of engine oils, spare parts, and heavy equipment. Dujarric said the efforts are also hampered by the inability to access most of Gaza’s lands, including areas less prone to flooding that could have been used to set up tents. Violence in the West Bank Regarding the situation in the West Bank, Dujarric said that field colleagues reported continued violence linked to settlers over the weekend, including thefts, arson, vandalism, assaults, and clashes in multiple areas, resulting in property damage and injuries. He reported that on Saturday, Israeli settlers hurled stones at a home in the village of Qusra, less than half a kilometer from a site where three families live in complete isolation, following the establishment of a new settlement outpost a few weeks earlier. Dujarric quoted humanitarian colleagues as saying that in the Ramallah vicinity there were three consecutive days of attacks by Israeli settlers accompanied by Israeli security forces. He added that these attacks alone caused injuries to about 12 Palestinians and also sometimes impeded the movement of people and vehicles, including ambulances, whether entering or exiting.

Israel Attack on a Hamas Commander at a Gaza Hospital. (CLO) The Israeli army stated on August 29 that it had attacked a Hamas commander who was hiding on the grounds of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, but could not confirm whether he had died. Công Luận•30/08/2026 According to a statement from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), the Hamas commander in question, whose identity was not disclosed, was hiding in a building near the hospital and was directing direct attacks against IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians. The Times of Israel, citing military sources, said the air strike killed the commander, while AFP reported that IDF information indicated that the results of the strike could not be confirmed immediately. The director of Al-Aqsa Hospital, Raed Hussein, told AFP that a small storage area inside the complex was hit by the attack. “Fortunately, there were no serious injuries; only four people suffered minor injuries,” he said, adding that the attack caused “widespread material damage.” Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF) has spoken out against the incident. On the X social media platform, the organization wrote that they were “shocked by the news of the Israeli airstrike near Al-Aqsa Hospital” and stressed that “hospitals must be safe places for patients and medical staff.” MSF called on all parties to respect and protect the neutrality of medical centers. You may also be interested On the same day, August 29, Gaza Civil Defense, a rescue force under Hamas control, reported that other Israeli airstrikes had killed four people across the Gaza Strip. One person was killed by Israeli gunfire in eastern Deir al-Balah. In the Tel al-Hawa area of Gaza City, an air strike near a roundabout killed two people and wounded several others. Israel said it had attacked an “armed individual” in the area. Another strike in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis left one dead and one seriously wounded. The IDF said it was verifying information related to these two incidents. The day before, the IDF also announced that an air strike in northern Gaza on August 28 had killed Company Commander Hani Abd al-Hay Fakhri Mazloum, of Hamas’s elite Nukhba forces, along with sniper Hassan Zidan Hassan Deiri. You may also be interested The strikes occurred in the context of a ceasefire negotiated by the United States that was to take effect in October 2025, but which has not yet brought a complete end to the Gaza conflict. The plan, backed by Washington, requires Hamas to disarm in return for a phased Israeli withdrawal, but this process has stalled so far. Hamas declared its acceptance of the plan, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that the troops would only withdraw after Palestinian forces handed over all of their weapons.

An Israeli strike on Sunday killed two Palestinians, including a three-year-old child in Central Gaza. The boy has been identified as Tayyem Hamdan. According to Gaza health officials, the strike happened near a bakery in Deir Al-Balah and also killed another man, Hussam Nusair and wounded several others. The Israeli Military said that in another attack in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on Saturday killed Yasser Abu al-Khair and Mohammed al-Adin, members of the elite Nukhba force in Hamas’s military wing, were killed, the Israeli army has claimed. Gaza's Health Ministry said Sunday that four people were killed and 14 injured as a result of Israeli strikes carried out in the past 24 hours against the besieged Palestinian territory. A “cease-fire” backed by the United States has been in place since October 2025; it was intended to end Israel's Genocidal war on Gaza. However, Israeli bombardment on the Gaza Strip has continued daily, killing at least 1,318 Palestinians and injuring 4,375 others since then. Hamas accuses Israel of violating the cease-fire; it has already dissolved its institutions in Gaza and agreed to a roadmap on its disarmament before announcing it was handing over management of the Gaza Strip to a technocratic government. The plan requires Israeli withdrawl from the Gaza enclave, over 60 per cent of which is occupied by Israel. Israel rejected the agreement, demanding the total and verifiable disarmament of Hamas. Israeli minister Ben Gvir posts video mocking Palestinian female inmates Trending Stories Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir posts a video on Sunday berating Palestinian female inmates at the Damon security prison in northern Israel. He boasted about the harsh conditions imposed on Palestinian security prisoners. One of the prisoners said prison staff regularly raid the cells, that inmates have no “normal showers” or water in their cells, and do not receive medical care. Ben Gvir responded approvingly as he compared the treatment to that of hostages held for up to two years by Hamas in Gaza following October 7, 2023. Hamas has condemned far-right Israeli security minister Ben Gvir’s raid of a Palestinian women’s prison cell, calling it “moral depravity”.

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Report: Israeli strike in Gaza kills 4, including 2 children Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent An Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip this morning killed a family of four, including two children, Palestinian media reports. The strike hit a home in the Beit Lahia area, the reports say. A hospital official at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City identifies the children as aged 12 and 8. The IDF tells The Times of Israel that it is looking into the reports. Separately, Palestinian media reports a strike in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis that wounded three people, two of them children. The military tells The Times of Israel that in the Khan Younis strike it targeted a “terrorist,” with further details to be provided later. AFP contributed to this report. If you’d like to comment, join The Times of Israel Community. The Times of Israel Community. JOIN THE TOI COMMUNITY Already a member? Log in here

On the morning of October 7, just before 6:29 a.m., they were still four young operations room soldiers talking about officer training, dreaming about their post-army trips and enjoying life on what, to them, was the safest base in the world, even though it sat just five kilometers from the Gaza border. Moments later, they found themselves without a brigade commander or deputy brigade commander, managing a battle, trying to dispatch forces and holding one another together inside a bubble of very real, mortal fear. For three years, they remained silent. At first, they tried to live normal lives and continue their service as usual. Three have since been discharged, but what was burned into them during those 24 hours has never let them rest. Now, at last, they have names, faces and a harrowing story that has never been told. Tahel Dahan, 22, from Yavne; Liel Gehari, 23, from Gedera; Lihi Moskovitz, 22, from Rishon Lezion; and Lt. H., 22, from Kiryat Gat, are the women who served in the Southern Brigade operations room of the Gaza Division, under the command of the late Col. Asaf Hamami. They became, against their will, the heroines of the shift that began on that Black Saturday and, in many ways, has never ended. This is their story. Then the sirens began The most senior of the four is Liel, who enlisted in December 2021 and was discharged exactly two years later, three months after the war began. The youngest is H., who enlisted in March 2023 and chose to pursue officer training. This week, she begins a new position in the Givati Brigade, which she asked to join in order to continue the path of Hamami, the commander she admired. All four went through the same training track for operations room soldiers. “Basic training and a course at Julis,” Liel said. “After that, you’re assigned to a general sector — Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank, Egypt. Then, after a few days of screening, they decide which operations room you’ll be assigned to. All of us, at different times, were assigned to the Gaza Division’s Southern Brigade at Re’im Camp.” Inside the operations room, they worked in fixed pairs: a shift supervisor and an operations room soldier. In practice, the positions are similar, with the difference mainly in the level of responsibility. Tahel was Lihi’s shift supervisor and Liel was H.’s. They describe a lively military routine among young women serving week-on, week-off schedules and spending 12 hours a day together in the same operations room. As happens every year shortly before the Jewish High Holidays, they were asked to choose which holiday they would remain on base for and which they would spend at home. All four chose to stay on base for Yom Kippur and Simchat Torah, but even when they were on leave, they stayed together. “On the first day of Sukkot,” H. recalled, “they all came to our sukkah. My mother made challah, schnitzel, sfenj. They’re all like her daughters.” They remember returning to Re’im Camp on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, straight into a surprise inspection that ended with disappointing results. “They let an unfamiliar person into the operations room,” Liel recalled. “Hamami was furious because the brigade had been a candidate for the Chief of Staff Award and this basically disqualified us. He took it very hard and changed things. For example, he canceled the entrance code to the operations room and instead handed out electronic access chips to only a few people.” That decision, as they would discover, became critical five days later. Because of the failed inspection, morale on base was somewhat low. “Then Friday came,” Liel said, “and we felt like we had to lift everyone’s spirits. Of course, it was Friday, so we made shakshuka for lunch and meatballs from Tahel’s mother’s recipe. She was literally on FaceTime with us while we fried them. We ate the shakshuka and put the meatballs in the refrigerator. During the attack on the base,” she added, smiling briefly, “the terrorists went into the kitchenette, wrecked the whole place and ate our meatballs.” “My shift with H. ended Friday at 9:30 p.m.,” Liel continued, “and Tahel and Lihi replaced us. Because we’re operations room soldiers and spend all day in the operations room, we don’t usually go to the base Kiddush. That Friday, something made H. tell me, ‘Go, sit with them.’ And I did. I saw people there I hadn’t seen in a while, some of whom are no longer with us. “Afterward, we sat until 3 a.m. in the operations soldiers’ kitchenette with Tomer Ahimas, who was part of Hamami’s command team,” she said. Ahimas was killed on October 7; his body was taken hostage and returned to Israel in July 2024. The base, they said, felt safe and protected. “Imagine arriving somewhere,” Lihi said, “and everything you’re taught is that the Gaza barrier is legendary, powerful and impossible to breach, and that there are so many fences and an underground barrier. So the second I saw on the cameras that they had crossed it, it shattered me. I felt like everything was exploding in my face, like everything had been a lie.” The Southern Brigade is responsible for the Kissufim and Kerem Shalom sectors. The observation soldiers subordinate to it are stationed at Kerem Shalom, the Magen-Nir Yitzhak outpost and Kissufim. Their reports are relayed to the brigade operations room at Re’im, where the operations room soldiers sit. “From there,” H. said, “we update the higher-ranking officials, from the operations room officer all the way up to the brigade commander, and they tell us what to do: dispatch a patrol, request resources from the division, make sure that in an extreme event there is a Zik drone overhead and so on.” The brigade had 10 operations room soldiers, they said. Five remained on base over the holiday: the four women and one new soldier who was still in training and assigned to the morning shift. Lihi began her shift with Tahel on the night between Oct. 6 and 7 and remembers it as relatively quiet. “Just annoying little tasks, like a malfunctioning point along the fence and debating whether to wake people up and dispatch forces. Those were our problems.” A few minutes before 6:29 a.m., she asked to step outside for a break. Then the sirens began. “When you’re inside the operations room,” Tahel said, “you don’t hear the sirens. They just appear on the computer. You see a red line on the screen, the launch point and the impact point, and then you wait a few minutes for the systems to determine whether it’s real. We were used to seeing one line, two lines. Suddenly, I saw a million lines.” Tahel called Lihi back in, and the two switched positions and opened the commander’s operations room. “I opened the system,” she recalled, “and all I could see were lines everywhere. I called communications to tell them there was a system malfunction.” ‘Terrorists are abusing bodies’ But the red lines on the screens were not a malfunction. “One of the battalion operations soldiers called me,” Tahel recalled, “and asked, ‘Does this look real to you?’ Then we heard this insane boom, and you say, ‘OK, it’s real.’ Once the officer confirmed that it was real, you think, ‘OK, how do we handle this?’ No one had ever taught you what to do in something on this scale.” A few minutes later, their commander, Hamami, entered the operations room. “You understood the entire situation from his face,” Tahel continued. “He was very pale, completely white. He told us, ‘I’m heading to Nirim,’ threw the key to our officer and told her, ‘Go get the boy from the room,’ because his son Alon, who was 6, was spending the holiday with us. “She left, and Lihi and I looked at each other with this ‘What the hell?’ expression. What do we do now? The joke about me had always been that while all the other shift supervisors were looking for action, I was the only one who said that if there was ever a raid while I was at home, don’t call me. And now it was happening on my shift.” The commander’s operations room can hold up to 15 personnel, but that night everyone who was not fighting eventually came inside. During the first hour, Lihi and Tahel managed the event through four screens showing what the observation soldiers at the battalions were seeing. “A bulldozer breaking through the fence,” Tahel recalled, “and at the same time motorcycles crossing. Not what you saw at home. We saw the uncensored version.” “Terrorists abusing bodies,” Lihi said. “Dragging them like rugs. I remember an entire family on their knees. You see people being kidnapped.” “You don’t really see faces,” Tahel clarified, “but I remember they took a soldier, and I don’t know whether he was already dead or not. They carried him like a casualty and simply crossed the fence with him. “During our service, we watched the investigation into Gilad Shalit’s kidnapping many times so we could learn from it. And I’m thinking, God, I’m in the operations room and it’s happening here. There’s a ‘Gilad Shalit 2’ happening on my shift.” Were you afraid you would be next? Tahel: “I still didn’t understand the situation. I remember the officer practically forced us to talk to our parents and tell them we were OK and alive. I called my mother and she didn’t answer, and I was happy. But the officer said, ‘Then call your father.’ “When I finished, trackers came in and said, ‘That’s it, there are terrorists on the base.’ And you think: What do we do? You don’t have a weapon. You have nothing. “From that moment on, every time someone entered the operations room, they told us to duck. One time, I looked my officer in the eyes and she looked at me, and there was this look between us that said, this is it. Like, ‘Well, it was nice while it lasted.’” Meeting death, again and again At the same time, on another side of the base, H. and Liel woke to the sound of helicopters. “I asked Liel,” H. recalled, “‘What are those helicopters doing here now?’ And she said, ‘Idiot, there’s about to be a Red Alert. Put your shoes on.’ The second she finished saying it, the siren started and we ran into a shelter in our pajamas.” It took them another 45 minutes to get fully dressed in uniform. “Including the beret,” H. said with a laugh. At 7:15 a.m., they too entered the operations room. “When they came in,” Lihi recalled, “they had a different look in their eyes. Liel was in this mode of, ‘We’re going to die,’ and I told her, ‘Look at me. We’re not going to die.’ By saying it to her, I was calming myself too.” “And I couldn’t stop crying,” Liel added. “For hours. I’m answering people, talking to soldiers who need to get there, and it doesn’t stop. I can’t control it.” Then another problem emerged. “Because Hamami had canceled the code a few days earlier,” Tahel said, “the only way into the operations room was with an access chip that we had. Normally, people would enter a code and come in. Now they were standing outside waiting for us to let them in. “And because this was a brigade headquarters, not a combat battalion, only the staff officers and trackers had weapons. So you’re sitting in the operations room with no weapon, hearing lots of Arabic because they’re talking among themselves, hearing weapons being cocked and pounding on the door, and you don’t know what to do. Are those trackers or terrorists? Do you open the door or not?” So what did you do? H.: “Eventually, one of the officers stood facing the door with his pistol drawn, and every time someone entered, he pointed it at them so he could shoot first if they opened fire.” Lihi: “The order was that every time someone entered, you ducked down. Then there would be this second of silence that felt like an eternity, and you were sure, OK, someone is about to spray everyone with bullets. “One time, I saw a tracker raise his weapon at someone and scream, ‘Get down, there’s a terrorist!’ We ducked, and that was the moment I was really sure it was over.” Tahel: “The number of times we came face to face with death that day was incomprehensible. And the entire time, we were still answering calls. There was a point when I was answering phones while thinking at the same time, ‘OK, when are they coming in and shooting us?’” Who was calling the operations room? Tahel: “The operations room phone was apparently being passed from person to person. Civilians at home looking for relatives, people from the Nova festival — you could hear them running and hear gunfire as they begged for help — people calling from inside the container, battalions, people saying, ‘I’m on my way, I’m escaping, where do I go?’” The screens in the operations room kept running, and H. and Liel saw everything, without filters. “On one of the cameras,” H. recalled, “you could see a concrete shelter full of terrorists wearing green and white headbands, and I looked at it and said, ‘But isn’t that the entrance to Kissufim? How can this be happening?’ “On the other screen, I saw a flattened fence and people moving in both directions, and I just looked at it and said, ‘No way,’ because that meant they were about to head toward Re’im. “For a long time afterward, the face of one terrorist kept coming back to me. I would close my eyes in the shower and see him exactly, with his beard, sitting on a motorcycle next to the shelter, with terrorists passing by while he directed them. “I remember one of the observation soldiers responsible for the surveillance balloons, who sat with us, fainted. Then the officer said, ‘I need eyes,’ meaning someone had to replace her because somebody had to keep watching. “So I moved to their operations room, and in front of me I saw a soldier being kidnapped. It was the most horrifying thing I had ever seen in my life. “When I came back to the operations soldiers, Liel asked me, ‘What’s wrong with you?’ and I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t open my mouth. When I finally did, I just started crying. “That was when I said, there is no way I am being kidnapped. But a second later, once I sat down in the chair and started working, I forgot about it.” “There was a discussion in the operations room,” Liel recalled, “that under no circumstances were we going to be taken alive. You also weren’t going to watch your friend get kidnapped. If necessary, we die together. “And because we didn’t have

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