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Girl and woman among five killed by Israeli fire across Gaza on Saturday
Deaths were reported from Beit Lahia in the north to Khan Younis in the south. Gaza's health ministry says 1,547 people have now been killed since the October 2025 ceasefire.
Key points
- At least five Palestinians were reported killed by Israeli fire across Gaza on Saturday.
- A woman was shot dead at al-Zahra School in Khan Younis in the evening.
- The health ministry counts 1,547 killed and 5,559 wounded since the ceasefire began.
At least five Palestinians, among them a young girl and two women, were reported killed by Israeli fire across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, as deaths continued a year into a ceasefire that has never fully held.
In Beit Lahia, in the north, a girl was shot dead in the Tal al-Dahab area and a woman was critically wounded. In Gaza City, one person was killed and three were hurt in an airstrike near Palestine Stadium in the al-Rimal neighbourhood. One person was shot dead in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
In the evening, a woman was shot dead at al-Zahra School in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the south. Another person died in western Khan Younis of wounds from an earlier strike.
Israeli tank fire also hit two occupied homes near the Shuja’iya junction in eastern Gaza City, injuring several residents, and a woman in Jabalia refugee camp was hurt by fire from an Israeli quadcopter, according to local reports. The victims were not named. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
A year of the truce
The ceasefire took effect on 11 October 2025. Since then, Gaza’s health ministry says, at least 1,547 Palestinians have been killed and 5,559 wounded by Israeli fire. The ministry puts the toll since the war began in October 2023 at 74,540 dead and 175,678 wounded.
The war followed the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which more than 1,200 people were killed.
Saturday’s deaths came as the Israeli army continued its operation in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, days before Israelis vote in a general election on 27 October.