Israeli Drone Strikes And Fire Kill Palestinians In Beit Lahiya, Gaza City, Khan Younis Over Two Days

Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip killed several Palestinians over two days despite a “ceasefire” that is now in its seventh month, according to Al Jazeera.

“Several Palestinians have been killed in two days of separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, despite the so-called “ceasefire” that is now in its seventh month, as raids and assaults continue in the occupied West Bank”

Al Jazeera

The report says brothers Abdelmalek and Abdel Sattar al-Attar were killed after an Israeli drone struck Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza on Thursday, in an area witnesses said fell outside the zone under Israeli control under the “ceasefire”.

Al Jazeera

Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defence, told the AFP news agency that the brothers died in that strike.

Al Jazeera also reports that on Thursday, nine-year-old Saleh Badawi was shot dead by Israeli forces in the Zeitoun neighbourhood east of Gaza City later that day, and Mohsen al-Dabbari, 38, was killed by Israeli fire south of Khan Younis, Bassal said.

The same Al Jazeera account says three others were wounded, including a teenage boy, after Israeli forces fired towards homes and tents sheltering displaced people east of Maghazi refugee camp, according to a witness speaking to Anadolu agency.

On Friday, Al Jazeera adds that three more Palestinians were killed, including brothers Mohammed and Eid Abu Warda, shot dead on Mansoura Street in the Shujayea neighbourhood east of Gaza City while transporting water by vehicle, with a third brother wounded with moderate injuries, medical sources told Anadolu.

Al Jazeera further states that an Israeli drone separately struck a water desalination facility in the same neighbourhood, killing one Palestinian and wounding several others, according to Wafa news agency.

UN Women’s reporting, cited by Daily Sabah and Haaretz, places the scale of women and girls’ deaths in Gaza at levels that persist even after the ceasefire.

Daily Sabah says more than 38,000 women and girls were killed by Israel in Gaza by the end of 2025, and it quotes Sofia Calltorp, the U.N. Women agency’s spokeswoman, telling a press briefing in Geneva: "Between October 2023 and December 2025, more than 38,000 women and girls were killed in Gaza – the result of Israeli air bombardment and land military operations."

Daily Sabah

Daily Sabah adds that this includes "over 22,000 women and 16,000 girls, amounting to an average of at least 47 women and girls killed every day."

It also reports that the agency said the true figures were likely to be higher because bodies were still buried under rubble and reporting systems were constrained, and it quotes Calltorp warning that "Women and girls accounted for a proportion of deaths far higher than those observed in previous conflicts in Gaza."

Haaretz, using Reuters material, similarly states that an average of "at least 47 women and girls were killed each day during the war in Gaza" and that UN Women warned deaths have continued "six months into a fragile ceasefire."

The South China Morning Post adds further detail by saying UN Women’s analysis showed that over half of all victims by the end of 2025 were women and girls, and it reports that nearly 11,000 women and girls survived the war with injuries that will result in lifelong disabilities.

It also says Palestinian health authorities put the estimated total death toll by the end of 2025 at just over 71,000, rising to more than 72,000 by mid-April as Israel continued sporadic attacks despite a ceasefire with Hamas.

Al Jazeera frames the continuing violence through a tally of “ceasefire” violations and a broader war timeline that begins with Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 cross-border attack on Israel.

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Haaretz

It says Gaza’s Government Media Office stated that Israel has committed 2,400 violations of the “ceasefire”, which began between Israel and Hamas in October.

The Al Jazeera report specifies that the violations include killings, arrests, blockades and starvation policies, and it says Israel’s “genocidal war on Gaza has killed more than 72,340 people since October 2023, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health,” including at least 765 since the “ceasefire” took effect.

It adds that at least 32 of those deaths have occurred since the start of April alone, and it names Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah as having been killed in a drone strike west of Gaza City on April 8.

Daily Sabah provides a complementary timeline, saying the fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas announced in October 2025 followed more than two years of Israel’s “genocidal war on Gaza” triggered by Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 cross-border attack on Israel.

Daily Sabah also states that at least 766 Palestinians have been killed since the truce came into effect, according to the Gaza health ministry.

The South China Morning Post adds that Palestinian health authorities put the estimated total death toll by the end of 2025 at just over 71,000 and rising to more than 72,000 by mid-April as Israel continued sporadic attacks despite a ceasefire with Hamas.

While the Gaza ceasefire is described as continuing amid attacks, Al Jazeera also reports raids and arrests in the occupied West Bank during Friday’s predawn hours across multiple governorates.

It says Israeli settlers set fire to two vehicles during an attack on Palestinian homes in the southern West Bank, according to a local activist.

South China Morning Post

Osama Makhmara told Anadolu that a group of armed Israeli occupiers infiltrated from the illegal settlement of Otniel into the Majd al-Ba’a area west of Yatta, south of Hebron, where they attacked Palestinian homes and burned two vehicles belonging to brothers Khaled and Yasser Abu Ali.

The report says the fire destroyed both vehicles, and it adds that Israeli forces stormed ar-Ram town north of Jerusalem, breaking into homes and arresting a number of Palestinians.

In Nablus, Al Jazeera reports that soldiers ransacked houses and detained about a dozen people in total across both governorates, according to Wafa.

Al Jazeera further states that the raids require no search warrant, conducted under Israeli military law, granting army commanders full authority over three million Palestinians who have no say in how the law is exercised.

It also cites Addameer, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, saying 9,600 Palestinian political prisoners are in Israeli prisons and detention centres, including 342 children and 84 women.

The same Al Jazeera account says 3,532 are held under administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial, for renewable intervals of three to six months, based on undisclosed evidence that even the prisoner’s lawyer is barred from viewing.

United Nations experts, it says, described the displacement being driven by Israeli forces and state-backed settler activity as “ethnically cleansing the West Bank through daily attacks resulting in killing, injury, and harassment of women and children, and the widespread destruction of Palestinian homes, farmland and livelihoods.”

The sources portray the immediate stakes for civilians as continuing deaths, displacement, and long-term harm, with UN Women describing both the scale of fatalities and the persistence of threats after the ceasefire.

“Several Palestinians have been killed in two days of separate Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, despite the so-called “ceasefire” that is now in its seventh month, as raids and assaults continue in the occupied West Bank”

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera reports that UN Women said an average of at least 47 women and girls were killed each day during the war in Gaza, with more than 38,000 killed between October 2023 and December 2025, and it quotes Sofia Calltorp saying: “Women and girls accounted for a proportion of deaths far higher than those observed in previous conflicts in Gaza.”

Al Jazeera

It adds that the agency expressed concern that violence has continued since the ceasefire, and it notes that raids and assaults continued in the occupied West Bank.

Daily Sabah similarly says UN Women warned that those who had survived face daily threats to their lives, starvation, recurrent displacement, and deeply restricted access to essential services, and it quotes Calltorp: "On top of a staggering death toll, nearly 11,000 women and girls in Gaza have sustained injuries so devastating that they survive only with lifelong disabilities."

Daily Sabah also reports that nearly a million women and girls have been repeatedly displaced during the conflict, while nearly 790,000 females have experienced crisis-level or catastrophic-level food insecurity.

The South China Morning Post adds that UN organisations estimate the true death toll is significantly higher because many bodies remain buried under the rubble and documentation is complicated by the level of destruction.

It also says nearly 11,000 women and girls survived the war with injuries that will result in lifelong disabilities, reinforcing the long-term consequences described by UN Women.

In parallel, Al Jazeera’s account of the West Bank includes the detention figures cited from Addameer, including 9,600 political prisoners and 3,532 held under administrative detention, which frames continuing risk beyond Gaza.