Israeli Forces Kill 26-Year-Old Palestinian Man in Nablus Raid

Israeli forces carried out raids and airstrikes across the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with multiple incidents reported in the same news cycle.

“Update on the situation in Gaza, where Israel is conducting regular bombardments, obstructing humanitarian aid, and illegally expanding its zone of control”

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In Nablus, Israeli forces raided the city in the occupied West Bank, firing live ammunition that killed a 26-year-old Palestinian man and wounded four others, including children, according to Al Jazeera.

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The Palestinian Ministry of Health said Samaro died after Israeli forces shot him in the head during the raid, while the Palestine Red Crescent Society said Israeli forces also blasted dozens to tear gas, with 40 people affected and 10 taken to hospital, as reported by Middle East Eye.

During the funeral in Nablus, Nablus Governor Ghassan Daghlas said the killing would not weaken Palestinians’ resolve, calling for unity in the face of continued Israeli attacks, according to Middle East Eye.

In Gaza, an Israeli army airstrike on Tuesday killed at least three Palestinians in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City, and the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City confirmed the arrival of the three victims, noting that their bodies were charred, according to الشرق.

The Palestinian Civil Defense said an Israeli drone fired two missiles at a Tucson-type vehicle near the Haidar Abdul Shafi roundabout in the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City, and its crews transported the bodies and the injured to the hospital, as reported by الشرق.

Earlier Tuesday morning, the Israeli army killed a 9-year-old child in an airstrike on the town of Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to الشرق.

In the southern Gaza Strip, WAFA reported that Israeli warships fired shells off the coast of Khan Younis, while Israeli occupation forces killed a Gaza resident identified as Musa Salem Fathi al-Abyad, 42, in the Atatra area north of the Gaza Strip, on Monday morning, according to WAFA.

Reporting tied the ongoing violence to the ceasefire framework, with multiple outlets describing continued attacks and violations after the truce took effect.

BFM said Israel and Hamas accuse each other of violating the ceasefire that went into effect on October 10, 2025 after two years of war triggered by the Palestinian movement's unprecedented attack on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023, and it added that at least 757 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire, citing the Gaza Health Ministry under Hamas’ authority.

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Charente Libre similarly said the ceasefire was in force since October 2025 but that violence continued in the Palestinian enclave ravaged by two years of war, and it reported that at least four people including a child were killed in an Israeli strike in the north of the Gaza Strip.

In the AFPS account, the Palestinian Ministry of Health estimated that at least two Palestinians had been killed in the last 24 hours, while it also claimed that since the entry into force of the ceasefire agreement, at least 1,700 Israeli violations have been recorded, including refusal to provide necessary medical care and to transfer people abroad and restrictions on humanitarian aid.

AFPS also stated that Israel refused Nidal Abu Rabi a permit to exit the territory to seek treatment abroad, and it said Israel had only approved 33% of the requests under the new agreement, with 50 Palestinians allowed to enter Gaza each day from Egypt and about 150 allowed to leave the enclave daily.

AFPS further asserted that more than 9,300 Palestinians injured or ill have died since October 2023 due to the collapse of medical care and Israel's ban on medical evacuations, and it claimed that Israel has killed more than 72,072 people over the past two years and destroyed nearly 90% of the territory's infrastructure.

In the AFPS narrative, local media reported that the army had carried out seven airstrikes early Sunday morning, particularly in Rafah and east of Gaza City, and it said artillery fire was reported across the Gaza Strip, mainly near areas where Israeli military vehicles are deployed.

Across the accounts, the ceasefire is presented not as an end to violence but as a contested backdrop to repeated strikes and restrictions, with each outlet citing different figures for deaths and violations.

Several reports focused on humanitarian access and medical evacuation constraints inside Gaza, describing how the ceasefire did not translate into unimpeded relief.

“Photo: Palestinians search for the bodies of family members killed by an Israeli bombardment in Beit Lahia, north of Gaza, February 22, 2026 © Quds News Network”

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AFPS said that Israel continued to refuse necessary medical care and to transfer people abroad, and it described the case of Nidal Abu Rabi, for whom Israel refused a permit to exit the territory to seek treatment abroad.

It also said the Gaza health systems are collapsing in the blockaded Gaza Strip, despite the recent decision to reopen the Rafah crossing in early February, and it specified that the crossing was reopened under heavy restrictions and close monitoring by Israel for the first time since May 2024.

AFPS reported that recent figures published by the Gaza Government Media Office revealed that Israel had only approved 33% of the requests, and it laid out the daily movement numbers under the new agreement: 50 Palestinians allowed to enter Gaza each day from Egypt and about 150 allowed to leave the enclave daily.

In the same AFPS account, it said more than 9,300 Palestinians injured or ill have died since October 2023 due to the collapse of medical care and Israel's ban on medical evacuations, and it added that more than 72,072 people have been killed over the past two years and nearly 90% of the territory's infrastructure has been destroyed.

The Agence Media Palestine report also emphasized obstruction of humanitarian aid, quoting UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric recalling at a press conference at UN headquarters in New York that Israel continued to hinder humanitarian aid operations in the Gaza Strip despite the ceasefire agreement.

That report said Dujarric stated that OCHA reported humanitarian operations continued to encounter major obstacles, and it added that of the roughly 50 coordinated aid initiatives between February 6 and 11, “Israeli authorities have only allowed half of them to enter” Gaza.

It further said Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced it had been unable to deliver any aid or humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the year due to restrictions imposed by Israel, and it quoted MSF’s Secretary-General Christopher Lockerbie highlighting the urgency of a significant increase in humanitarian aid.

The conflict coverage also included reports about Israeli strikes targeting Hamas leadership and the political fallout tied to ceasefire viability.

Ouest-France reported that the Israeli government said on Saturday it had killed “one of the architects” of the October 7, 2023 attack in an air strike in the southwest of Gaza City, and it said the victim turned out to be Raed Saad, the second-in-command of Hamas's armed wing, confirmed on Sunday, December 14, by the Islamist movement's negotiator.

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Ouest-France further said Hamas's chief negotiator, Khalil al-Hayya, confirmed on Sunday, December 14, 2025 that Raed Saad had been killed Saturday by an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip, and it quoted a televised warning that the assassination jeopardizes the viability of the ceasefire that came into effect in October.

In the same report, Ouest-France cited a joint statement in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the elimination of the terrorist Raad Saad, in response to the activation of a Hamas explosive device that wounded their forces.

Ouest-France added that thousands of Gazans attended Raed Saad's funeral in Gaza.

The report also included additional West Bank killings, stating that the Palestinian Ministry of Health said Israeli forces had killed a Palestinian man on Sunday in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, with the Israeli army describing it as an attempted knife attack.

It named Mohamed Wael al-Charouf, 23, and said the ministry confirmed he was “shot dead by the forces (Israeli) in the north of the city of Hebron,” while the Israeli army said it had “eliminated a terrorist who had attempted to stab them in the Hebron region.”

Ouest-France also said that on Saturday, the Palestinian civil affairs body said Israeli forces had killed a 16-year-old in Jenin, in northern West Bank.

Beyond Gaza, Israeli reporting described a case involving a Palestinian man suspected of murdering his 12-year-old son and burning his body, and it detailed how the IDF said it captured the suspect after he infiltrated Israel.

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The Jerusalem Post reported that the IDF said the man was found in Israel after infiltrating the country, and it described how Palestinian sources told KAN News that the man had taken his son to the Palestinian village of Beit Ur, near Ramallah, West Bank, and stabbed him near an agricultural area of the town.

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The report said he then burned the body, fled the scene, and infiltrated Israel near the Hashmonaim checkpoint, evading the Palestinian Authority security forces in the process, after which the PA contacted the IDF because it was unable to locate the man.

The Jerusalem Post quoted an IDF statement saying: "IDF forces operating last night at the Hashmonaim checkpoint in the Central Command detained a Palestinian suspect for questioning."

It added that initial questioning at the checkpoint revealed that the suspect murdered his son in the Ramallah area and fled the scene, and it said the IDF interrogated the suspect and then handed him to the PA.

The same Jerusalem Post article also shifted to a separate law-enforcement effort, stating that last week the military and the Israel Police announced they had arrested and indicted seven members of the Hariri crime organization for extortion, threats, and the planting of explosive devices.

It said the filing of indictments and prosecutors’ statements followed raids conducted in Arab villages and the West Bank on April 12, during which 11 suspects were arrested, and it reported that multiple vehicles and a large amount of cash were seized during the raids.

The Jerusalem Post said the investigation and raids were the product of collaboration between multiple bodies, including the Israel Police, Border Police, dog squad units, and the IDF.