Israel Killed 28 Palestinians in Gaza Sunday Morning, Including Eight Searching for Water

Attacks described by medical sources and eyewitnesses as part of a genocide carried out by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip killed 28 people on Sunday morning, including eight searching for water, according to Anadolu Agency as cited by Dakarposte.

“An official at Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip reported the martyrdom of 3 Palestinians and the injury of others in a strike by an Israeli drone on a security checkpoint at Mawasi, Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Strip, in the late hours of Thursday–Friday”

Al-Jazeera Net

Dakarposte said Israeli fighter jets bombed a house in the Al-Chatii refugee camp west of Gaza City, killing six Palestinians and injuring others, while an Israeli drone strike killed two Palestinians in the Sabra neighborhood south of Gaza City.

Al-Jazeera Net

The same report said an Israeli airstrike targeting a home in the al-Sawarah region west of the Nuseirat refugee camp killed nine members of the al-Arbid family and injured others, and that an Israeli airstrike hit a gas station in the Nuseirat refugee camp killing eight Palestinians including six children and injuring 16.

In Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Dakarposte reported three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a tent housing displaced people in the Al-Mawasi neighborhood west of the city.

Dakarposte also framed the broader conflict as lasting 22 months since October 7, 2023, with about 196,000 casualties, dead and wounded among Palestinians, and more than 10,000 missing.

Al-Jazeera Net reported that an Israeli drone struck a security checkpoint at Mawasi, Khan Younis, and that an official at Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip reported the “martyrdom of 3 Palestinians and the injury of others.”

The same Al-Jazeera Net account said Civil Defense was dealing with a fire that broke out in the shelters of displaced people following a strike on Mawasi al-Qarara in Khan Younis.

Dakarposte

Al-Jazeera Net said these attacks came on the second day of Eid al-Adha, after the first day saw intensive nighttime raids in central Gaza City that left 10 Palestinians dead, including two children and two women, and dozens injured.

Al-Jazeera Net added that the Israeli occupation continues to launch repeated attacks on the Gaza Strip despite a ceasefire in effect since October 10, 2025, after two years of an Israeli war of extermination.

In a new challenge to the agreement, Al-Jazeera Net reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that orders were issued to the army to expand the areas it controls in the Gaza Strip to 70% of the total area of the Strip.

Human Rights Watch said that in 2024 the Israeli army continued to kill, injure, starve, and forcibly displace thousands of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and to destroy their homes, schools, hospitals, and infrastructure on an unprecedented scale in recent history.

“In 2024, the Israeli army continued to kill, injure, starve, and forcibly displace thousands of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and to destroy their homes, schools, hospitals, and infrastructure on an unprecedented scale in recent history”

Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch reported that the Gaza Health Ministry said in late November that more than 44,000 people had been killed and 104,000 wounded since hostilities intensified on October 7, 2023.

The same Human Rights Watch report said that in November the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Gaza from October 7, 2023 to May 20, 2024.

Human Rights Watch also stated that almost all Palestinians in Gaza had been forcibly displaced and that all faced severe food insecurity or famine, while describing Israeli forces as forcibly displacing nearly the entire population of Gaza, often multiple times.

It further said that by May 2024 more than half of Gaza's population was crowded into Rafah, in the south of the Strip, which the Israeli army then attacked, forcing more than 1.4 million people to flee again.