Israeli strikes kill two and injure others as Gaza attacks continue

As numerous victims of past strikes remain trapped under rubble, inaccessible to ambulance and rescue crews, at least two Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in the last 48 hours, Gaza's Ministry of Health notes.

Key points

• Despite the so-called "ceasefire" agreed to in October 2025, Gaza's Health Ministry remarked on Saturday that 1, 285 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since then.
• Four injured individuals were additionally brought to hospitals in Gaza, the Health Ministry noted on Saturday.
• Israeli forces have advanced further into the east of Gaza City, expanding the "Yellow Line" towards more civilian areas and demolishing property and infrastructure inside the zone.
• Abu Amra documented that the Israeli army carried out two demolition operations in Deir el-Balah, with explosions heard from a distance as the targeted houses collapsed into rubble.
• Israeli strikes and home demolitions continued elsewhere in the enclave, including in the southern city of Khan Younis.

Meanwhile, an Israeli drone attack targeted the al-Hasanat family in the central city of Deir el-Balah on Saturday, killing one person and wounding others, Al Jazeera's Ashraf Abu Amra documented from the city.

Abu Amra remarked the attack was carried out without warning to the family, in an area crowded with tents of displaced residents. Ambulance and civil defence crews rushed to the scene and transported a number of wounded residents to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city.

Israeli forces additionally pushed into the eastern part of the city and struck multiple homes there, he stated, with troops remaining positioned close to civilian areas along the city's eastern perimeter.

Israeli strikes and home demolitions continued elsewhere in the enclave, including in the southern city of Khan Younis. In eastern Khan Younis, Israeli forces shelled a number of civilian areas, targeting displaced Palestinians' camps sitting throughout from the military-controlled area along the "Yellow Line".

According to local reports, a woman was wounded after being fired at by Israeli forces near ad-Dawa Street, northeast of the Nuseirat refugee camp, in an attack on civilians in central Gaza.

As they continued firing in the eastern parts of the Strip, there were additionally Israeli artillery attacks in areas northeast of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.

Abu Amra remarked Israeli air and artillery attacks have intensified in areas the military designates as "humanitarian zones", where more than two million residents are concentrated in roughly 30 percent of the Gaza Strip's total area.

Despite the so-called "ceasefire" agreed to in October 2025, Gaza's Health Ministry remarked on Saturday that 1, 285 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since then. Since Israel's genocidal war began in October 2023, 73, 419 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, overall.

As thousands are feared trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings, the toll remains incomplete, authorities say. As families retrieve bodies of their loved ones, Gaza is additionally running out of space to bury the dead.

Taken together, the developments around israeli strikes kill two and injure others as Gaza attacks continue point to a situation that is still moving, and the coming days should bring more clarity.