Gaza Genocide02 May, 20267 min read
Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Girl Hala Abou Sabikha In Maghazi Raid
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Rahat shooting killed a Palestinian citizen of Israel. The incident increased the year’s fatalities of Palestinian citizens of Israel.
Border deaths and raids
Incidents multiplied along the border between Israel and the Palestinian territories in the days leading up to the latest deaths, with Israeli and Palestinian accounts describing shootings, raids, and strikes across Gaza. L'Express reports that Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon warned that "Hamas was sovereign in Gaza, and therefore responsible for the shootings today from the Gaza Strip and for the rocket fire over the last two days toward Israel." The Islamist movement responded that "the warnings and raids by the occupier would not deter the resistance from acting."
“Hamas was sovereign in Gaza, and therefore responsible for the shootings today from the Gaza Strip and for the rocket fire over the last two days toward Israel.”
L'Express says a three-year-old girl, Hala Abou Sabikha, was killed in an Israeli raid on the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, and that the raid also wounded her mother and brother. A spokesperson for emergency services in the Palestinian territory, Achraf al-Qoudra, said the toll stood at one dead and six wounded. L'Express adds that Israeli strikes targeted sites east of Gaza City, as well as two positions of Hamas's armed wing in the central Palestinian territory and in Khan Younis in the south, according to witnesses.
The same report ties the strikes to the death of an Israeli man working on the border barrier, "struck by a Palestinian gunshot," and quotes the Israeli army saying, "A Gaza shooter killed an Israeli civilian with a single bullet to the chest." It also notes that the Israeli army said it was the "first Israeli civilian killed near the Gaza Strip since Operation Pillar of Defense" (November 14–21, 2012).
Gaza casualties and hospital counts
While L'Express describes the Maghazi raid and the emergency-services toll, the broader reporting in the provided sources also frames Gaza deaths through competing counts and separate incident reporting. The L'Express account places the raid in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza and says Achraf al-Qoudra reported "one dead and six wounded." It also describes a pattern of Israeli strikes launched after the death of an Israeli man working on the border barrier, and it specifies that the strikes involved "aircraft, tanks and infantry."
In parallel, the WAFA Agency report included in the source set focuses on shootings in Rahat and Sha'ab in the northern 1948 Territory, but it situates those deaths within the same wider period of violence affecting Palestinian citizens of Israel. WAFA says a Palestinian citizen of Israel was killed in a shooting in the city of Rahat in Al-Naqab and that the man, "in his 20s, was pronounced dead at the scene." WAFA also says another Palestinian citizen of Israel was critically injured in a shooting in Sha'ab in the northern 1948 Territory, and it gives a running total: "This brings the total number of Palestinian citizens of Israel killed since the beginning of 2026 to 87."
The WAFA report further states that the surge follows a record year in 2025, when "252 people were killed in 218 separate incidents," according to the Abraham Initiatives. The L'Express report, by contrast, emphasizes the Gaza side of the border escalation and includes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks during a visit to Sderot, saying, "This is a very serious incident and we will not leave it without a response," and quoting the Israeli army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner on the security barrier.
Competing narratives of responsibility
The sources also present sharply different ways of assigning responsibility for violence and for the escalation along the Gaza border. L'Express attributes the Israeli framing to Moshe Ya'alon, who warned that "Hamas was sovereign in Gaza, and therefore responsible for the shootings today from the Gaza Strip and for the rocket fire over the last two days toward Israel." It then quotes the Islamist movement’s statement that "the warnings and raids by the occupier would not deter the resistance from acting."
“Hamas was sovereign in Gaza, and therefore responsible for the shootings today from the Gaza Strip and for the rocket fire over the last two days toward Israel.”
L'Express further describes how Israeli strikes were launched after the death of an Israeli man working on the border barrier, and it quotes the Israeli army’s explanation that "A Gaza shooter killed an Israeli civilian with a single bullet to the chest." In the same report, Israeli officials justify the security barrier by quoting Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner: "The security barrier is essential to protect the civilians of the State of Israel and to prevent terrorists from reaching our cities and towns." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is quoted saying, "This is a very serious incident and we will not leave it without a response," during a visit to Sderot to inaugurate a train station protected against rocket fire.
Meanwhile, the WAFA Agency report shifts the responsibility debate to internal violence affecting Palestinian citizens of Israel, saying Palestinians accuse "the Israeli government and law enforcement agencies of failing to protect their communities." WAFA adds that Palestinians argue "official bodies have neglected Palestinian communities and, in some cases, enabled the conditions allowing violence to spread." It also links the rise in killings to National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, stating that "The rise in killings has continued since National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir" took office in 2023.
Arab community tally and local shootings
Beyond Gaza, two of the provided sources focus on killings in Rahat and the Negev, presenting tallies and demographic breakdowns that are not part of the Gaza border narrative. Al-Najah Radio and News says that "The killing of a young man in Rahat raises the Arab community's crime-victim tally to 74 since the start of the year." It identifies the young man as Abdullah Dwayhi al-Buhairi (27), saying he was "shot dead on Thursday evening" in Rahat in the Negev, and it states that the death raised the death toll in the Arab community since the start of the year to 74.
Al-Najah further says the tally includes "3 in the city itself within days," and it specifies that "73 are victims from 33 towns and villages" and that "a victim from the West Bank was killed in Nazareth." The same source adds that among the victims are "five women," "three young men killed by police fire," and "three boys under 18," while also stating that "This statistic does not include occupied Jerusalem." WAFA Agency provides a different framing for Rahat, saying a Palestinian citizen of Israel on Friday was killed in a shooting in Rahat and that the man was "pronounced dead at the scene."
WAFA also provides a different running total, saying the total number of Palestinian citizens of Israel killed since the beginning of 2026 is 87, including "46 under the age of 30," "eight women," "three killed by Israeli police fire," and "three minors under the age of 18." The Yafa News Network headline roundup included in the source set also points to Israeli gunfire incidents in Qalandia refugee camp north of Jerusalem and Dheisheh south of Bethlehem, and it says the front pages highlighted "injuries to others by Israeli gunfire" in those locations.
What comes next in the sources
The provided sources also point to forward-looking actions and ongoing monitoring, even as they differ in what they emphasize. L'Express says Israeli strikes were launched after the death of an Israeli man working on the border barrier and that Netanyahu said, "This is a very serious incident and we will not leave it without a response," while the Israeli army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner described the security barrier as essential to protect civilians and prevent terrorists from reaching Israeli cities and towns. It also notes that Netanyahu visited Sderot to inaugurate a train station protected against rocket fire, tying the immediate next steps to infrastructure protection.
On the Palestinian side, L'Express quotes the Islamist movement’s statement that Israeli warnings and raids would not deter resistance, and it frames the escalation as part of a broader contest over ceasefire enforcement by force, saying that "Since then, Hamas has been trying to enforce the ceasefire with Israel by force." Al-Najah’s page, meanwhile, is structured as a continuing tally and includes a list of "Latest News" items that reference UNRWA, humanitarian conditions in the camps, and "The United Nations reveals expansion of the occupation in Gaza," indicating that the conflict’s humanitarian and political dimensions remain active in its reporting stream. WAFA Agency similarly situates the killings within a longer trend, saying the number of deaths has increased roughly fourfold over the past decade and that the rise has continued since Itamar Ben Gvir took office in 2023.
WAFA also reports that Palestinian citizens of Israel have organized "a series of protests" in predominantly Palestinian towns and villages against rising violent crimes and accuse Israeli police of complicity and failure to protect communities. Finally, the Yafa News Network headline roundup includes multiple Gaza-related items, including "One month into the war... attacks on nuclear and industrial facilities" and "Mladenov: We are racing against time to form a Gaza authority acceptable to Palestine," which suggests that the sources portray both military and governance efforts as ongoing.