Israeli Forces Kill Four Palestinians, Including a Child, in Gaza Artillery Shelling

Four Palestinians, including a child, were martyred in the predawn hours of this Sunday in a series of attacks carried out by Israeli occupation forces through artillery shelling and gunfire, targeting areas scattered across the southern Gaza Strip and its center, according to Al-Jazeera Net.

“Israeli forces have killed 12 Palestinians in attacks throughout Gaza, medical sources in the enclave tell Al Jazeera, as Israel continues its daily violations of the ceasefire struck last year”

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Anadolu Agency, quoting medical sources at the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in western Gaza City, reported the arrival of the bodies of two Palestinians following an Israeli drone strike that hit a motorcycle near the Kuwait Roundabout on Salah al-Din Street southeast of the city.

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The sources said a third Palestinian was martyred by Israeli army gunfire in the Maghrqa area in the center of the Strip, while a 14-year-old child was martyred, succumbing to injuries sustained in an Israeli strike that targeted the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in the northern part of Gaza City on Saturday evening.

In tandem with the firing from military vehicles, the Israeli army fired shells east of Khan Younis city in the southern sector, according to eyewitnesses.

In the central sector, the eastern areas of the al-Bureij refugee camp were subjected to artillery shelling synchronized with intensive firing from Israeli helicopters.

Israeli artillery also shelled the eastern parts of the Al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City, and warships fired their shells toward the city’s coast.

The Gaza government’s Information Office said Israel had committed 2,400 breaches of the ceasefire agreement, including killings, arrests, blockade, and starvation.

Al Jazeera reported that Israeli forces have killed 12 Palestinians in attacks throughout Gaza, with medical sources in the enclave telling Al Jazeera that the killings occurred as Israel continued its daily violations of the ceasefire struck last year.

The outlet said an Israeli attack on a police vehicle on Friday killed at least eight people, including three civilian bystanders, in Khan Younis, and that a separate attack in Gaza City also killed two police officers.

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Al Jazeera also said two other people were killed in the bombing of a house in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, and it quoted Gaza’s Ministry of Interior calling on the international community on Friday to intervene and end the Israeli targeting of local police forces working to restore security in civilian areas.

The ministry said, “The continued silence of international organisations … regarding the targeting of civilian police officers constitutes complicity with the Israeli occupation, encouraging it to commit further crimes against a civilian institution protected under international law,” and it added, “There is absolutely no justification for targeting it or killing its personnel.”

Al Jazeera tied the ongoing attacks to the ceasefire timeline, saying a ceasefire, brokered by United States President Donald Trump, came into effect in October of last year and that it decreased the intensity of the Israeli bombardment.

The outlet further stated that Israel has nevertheless continued its attacks on the territory, killing at least 984 people and injuring 2,235 others since the truce was announced, according to health authorities.

Al Jazeera also said the overall death toll in the war has surpassed 72,500 with more than 172,000 injured, and it described the number of confirmed casualties as representing more than 7 percent of the enclave’s population of two million people.

In a separate report, tv5monde said Israeli bombardments left 36 dead in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, April 24, in the northern Gaza Strip.

“Four Palestinians, including a child, were martyred in the predawn hours of this Sunday in a series of attacks carried out by Israeli occupation forces through artillery shelling and gunfire, targeting areas scattered across the southern Gaza Strip and its center”

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It reported that Israel resumed, on March 18, its air and then ground offensive in the Palestinian enclave, breaking a two-month truce, and it described smoke rising into the sky after an Israeli bombardment in Khan Younis on Thursday, April 24, 2025.

tv5monde said at least 36 people, including six members of the same family, were killed in new Israeli bombardments on Thursday morning, April 24, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense and hospital sources.

It added that the Indonesian hospital in Jabalia (north) said it had received the bodies of nine victims after an Israeli strike on a police station in this northern city of the Palestinian territory.

The Israeli army confirmed in a statement that it had carried out a strike in the area, specifying that it targeted 'terrorists operating in a Hamas and Islamic Jihad command and control center'.

A witness, Abdel Qader Sabah, told AFP, “The bombardment was extremely intense and shook the entire area,” and he added, “Everyone started running and shouting, not knowing what to do.”

tv5monde also said another airstrike on a house in the northern part of the city of Gaza killed a family of six—a couple and their four children—according to Palestinian Civil Defense, and it quoted Oum Ibrahim al-Zamili protesting, “Why? What did they do? What is the fault of these children? They were bombed while they were simply sleeping! They are innocent. All the children of Gaza,”.

Al Jazeera framed the latest Gaza attacks through competing political and legal voices, quoting Gaza’s Ministry of Interior and Hamas alongside the outlet’s broader discussion of ceasefire enforcement.

The ministry said, “We emphasise that the police force provides services to citizens in the Gaza Strip across various aspects of daily life,” and it insisted, “There is absolutely no justification for targeting it or killing its personnel.”

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Al Jazeera also quoted Hamas on Friday calling the deadly attacks in Gaza part of the Israeli government’s “unprecedented bloody, fascist approach,” and it said Hamas described the escalation as “a clear failure of the role of the mediators and guarantors [of the ceasefire] and the international community to quell the barbaric Zionist killing machine.”

In the same report, Al Jazeera described how Israel has continued attacks despite the ceasefire, stating that “Israel continues to occupy most of Gaza” and that “Reconstruction in the territory has not begun.”

Al Jazeera added that an international security force envisioned by the agreement has not been formed, and it said that in February Trump convened his so-called Board of Peace intended to govern Gaza through a council of Palestinian technocrats, while noting it was “not clear when or how these forces will take over government agencies in the territory.”

The outlet also connected the ceasefire to the broader war timeline, saying the war started in October 2023 and that the Israeli military regularly targeted officers securing aid convoys, which led to intensified looting and deepened the hunger crisis.

In Al-Jazeera Net’s account of the predawn strikes, the Gaza government’s Information Office said Israel had committed 2,400 breaches of the ceasefire agreement, including killings, arrests, blockade, and starvation.

The sources also diverge in how they present the scale and framing of events, even when describing the same broader conflict.

Al-Jazeera Net’s predawn report emphasizes a wide geographic sweep—Kuwait Roundabout on Salah al-Din Street southeast of western Gaza City, Maghrqa in the center, Sheikh Radwan in northern Gaza City, and shelling east of Khan Younis—while pairing it with a Gaza government tally of “2,400 breaches of the ceasefire agreement.”

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Al Jazeera’s separate report focuses on a specific set of incidents tied to police and civilian bystanders, saying an Israeli attack on a police vehicle on Friday killed at least eight people, including three civilian bystanders, in Khan Younis, and it adds that Israel has killed at least 984 people and injured 2,235 others since the truce was announced.

tv5monde, by contrast, reports a specific date and casualty count—“At least 36 people have died on Thursday, April 24”—and it includes an Israeli army statement specifying that a strike targeted 'terrorists operating in a Hamas and Islamic Jihad command and control center'.

tv5monde also situates the April 24 bombardments within a resumption timeline, saying Israel resumed on March 18 its air and then ground offensive, breaking a two-month truce.

The Palestinian Civil Defense and hospital sources appear in tv5monde’s account as the basis for body counts, while Al Jazeera’s account relies on “medical sources in the enclave” and Gaza’s Ministry of Interior statements.

Even when both outlets discuss ceasefire-related violence, Al Jazeera uses the language of “daily violations of the ceasefire,” while Al-Jazeera Net uses the Gaza government’s “breaches” figure and ties it to killings, arrests, blockade, and starvation.

Across the reports, the stakes are presented as continuing immediate harm and a stalled political process rather than a completed ceasefire.

Al-Jazeera Net says the ongoing breaches of the agreement have resulted in the martyrdom of 972 Palestinians and injuries to 2,235, according to the health ministry in the Strip, and it states that these violations continue despite the agreement “after two years of a genocidal war that Israel began on October 8, 2023 with American support.”

It adds that while Israel continues to occupy more than 50% of the Strip’s territory, hundreds of thousands of displaced people live in tents, in schools, shelters, and open areas after the destruction of their homes due to the Israeli war, amid severe humanitarian and living conditions.

Al Jazeera similarly says that the overall death toll in the war has surpassed 72,500 with more than 172,000 injured, and it notes that thousands of missing people are believed to be dead and buried under the destroyed buildings.

tv5monde reports that Israel resumed its offensive on March 18 and that the April 24 bombardments killed at least 36 people, while it also states that this toll raises the number of deaths in the Gaza Strip to 51,355 according to Hamas’s Health Ministry.

tv5monde further says that this unprecedented attack has killed 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official data, and it reports that of the 251 people abducted, 58 remain hostages in Gaza, of whom 34 have died, according to the Israeli army.

In Al Jazeera’s account, the political stakes are tied to the ceasefire’s implementation, saying Trump has struggled to implement the 12-point plan on which the truce was based and that reconstruction has not begun.