Israeli fire kills five in Gaza, including child

Israeli strikes and gunfire on Thursday killed five people across Gaza, including a woman and a 12-year-old boy, rescue services in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory told

Israel and Hamas regularly accuse each other of violating the ceasefire that came into effect in October 2025, after two years of war triggered by the Palestinian movement's unprecedented attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for Gaza's civil defence agency, told AFP that a 12-year-old boy was killed by Israeli gunfire east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

A few kilometres away, near the town of Al-Zawayda, two people were killed in separate Israeli strikes, he added.

The nearby Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital confirmed to AFP that all three were dead on arrival.

In southern Gaza, a woman was killed by Israeli gunfire near the city of Khan Yunis, Bassal said. Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis confirmed her death to AFP.

Later in the day, "one person was killed and several others injured in an Israeli drone strike... west of Gaza City," Bassal said.

Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military said it had struck "terrorists" in the Al-Zawayda area and west of Gaza City and was "looking into" reports concerning the Palestinian woman killed in Khan Yunis.

Israeli forces have killed more than 1,600 people since the announcement of the ceasefire a year ago, according to Gaza's health ministry, which operates under Hamas authority and whose figures are considered reliable by the UN.

Agence France-Presse