Israeli Strike Kills Hassan Al-Hanagra And 8-Year-Old Malik Abu Shawish In Deir Al-Balah

Israeli forces struck a tent sheltering displaced people in the central Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least three Palestinians, including an 8-year-old boy and his grandfather, medical officials said in Deir al-Balah.

PBS, citing medical officials, identified the fatalities as Hassan al-Hanagra and his 8-year-old grandchild, Malik Abu Shawish, and said Abu Shawish was visiting his mother's tent when the strike hit a neighborhood in Deir al-Balah.

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The same account said Israel's military stated the strike was targeting a militant but did not immediately name him or say if he was killed.

In a separate strike Sunday in southern Gaza, Israel's military said it killed Zaher Abu Salem, described as a member of Islamic Jihad involved in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that triggered the war.

The PBS report also said that while fighting has subsided since a ceasefire took hold in October, Israeli forces have carried out near-daily strikes, killing 1,045 Palestinians, including more than 360 women and children, according to health officials in Gaza.

In the same PBS account, the Gaza Health Ministry, which is part of the Hamas-led government, maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts, but it does not give a breakdown of civilians and militants.

Israel says it is targeting militants, often saying they were planning attacks on Israeli troops who hold more than 60% of the Gaza Strip, and the PBS report said five Israeli soldiers have been killed in militant attacks since the ceasefire.

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Anadolu Ajansı reported that on Saturday, two Palestinians were injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a gathering of civilians in the downtown area of Gaza City, on the fourth day of Eid al-Adha.

Anadolu said a medical source at the Adventist Hospital told its correspondent that two injuries, one of them serious, arrived after the strike targeted a group of civilians with two missiles near the Firas Market in downtown Gaza City.

TRT Français reported that Israeli fire killed brothers Mohammed and Eid Abu Warda and wounded their third brother in the Shujaiya neighborhood, and said the bodies of Mohammed and Eid Abu Warda were transported to hospitals.

Beyond battlefield strikes, Le Devoir reported that in 2025, 129 journalists and press workers were killed worldwide, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), attributing two-thirds of the cases to Israel.

Le Devoir said an Israeli military spokesperson told Agence France-Presse that the Israeli army 'firmly rejects the allegations presented in the CPJ report,' adding that Israeli forces do not intentionally target journalists or their family members and 'are taking all possible measures to reduce civilian harm, including to journalists.'

Le Devoir also reported that the CPJ said the overwhelming majority of those killed were Palestinian journalists and media workers in Gaza, and that the year 2025 marks the second consecutive annual record in 30 years that the CPJ has kept this tally.

In the Anadolu and TRT Français accounts, the war’s reach extended to other locations and incidents, including an Israeli strike on a car in southern Beirut reported by صحيفة الخليج and a report of settlers setting fire to two vehicles in the southern occupied West Bank.

TRT Français said illegal Israeli settlers carried out 497 attacks against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank in March, killing nine, and said violence intensified across the occupied West Bank since the Gaza war began in October 2023.