At least 11 Palestinians were killed in a single day across Gaza and the occupied West Bank, in a wave of violence spanning Israeli military strikes, naval shelling, drone attacks, and settler assaults that left dozens more wounded.
In the occupied West Bank, four Palestinians died on Tuesday. The most striking incident occurred in Hebron, where Mohammad Majdi al-Jaabari, a 16-year-old, was cycling to school when he was struck and killed by a vehicle in a security convoy escorting Israeli Settlement Minister Orit Strock, who resides in a settlement in the city. The teenager’s death drew immediate condemnation from Palestinian officials.
Further north, near Ramallah, Israeli settlers attacked the village of al-Mughayyir, east of the city, killing two Palestinians at al-Mughayyir Boys School. Aws Hamdi al-Na’san, a 14-year-old student, was shot dead, as was Jihad Marzouq Abu Na’im, 32. Four others were wounded in the assault. Separately, a 49-year-old Palestinian woman succumbed to injuries she sustained when Israeli forces shot her during a raid on Jenin refugee camp.
The West Bank killings add to a mounting toll. Since October 7, 2023, at least 1,152 Palestinians — including 239 children — have been killed in the territory, with more than 11,885 injured. At least 48 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the start of this year alone.
In Gaza, at least seven Palestinians were killed across a series of Israeli attacks over the same 24-hour period, with 21 others reported injured. Near Khan Younis in the south, three men died, among them a man who had recently married. An Israeli drone strike killed one person in the Sheikh Nasser neighbourhood east of Khan Younis.
In northern Gaza, Israeli naval forces shelled tent encampments sheltering displaced families northwest of Beit Lahiya, killing a Palestinian woman. The use of naval artillery against civilian shelter areas drew fresh scrutiny over the conduct of military operations in densely populated displacement zones.
Near Gaza City, an Israeli quadcopter drone dropped explosives on a tent housing displaced Palestinians in the Shujayea area. A separate attack at the Dawla roundabout in the city’s Zeitoun neighbourhood killed one person and wounded several others.
A child, Abdullah Dawas, also died from injuries he sustained ten days earlier after being shot in the head near the al-Fakhoura clinic in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. His death underscored the delayed human cost of ongoing hostilities, where many victims linger for days or weeks before succumbing to their wounds.
The Gaza Ministry of Health reports that at least 72,560 Palestinians have been killed and 172,560 injured since the conflict began on October 7, 2023. Since a ceasefire took effect in October, 784 Palestinians have been killed and 2,214 wounded — a period that has also seen 761 bodies recovered from beneath the rubble of destroyed buildings.
The scale of destruction across Gaza remains staggering. Entire neighbourhoods have been reduced to rubble, and hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians continue to shelter in makeshift tents with limited access to food, water, and medical care. The recovery of bodies from collapsed structures continues daily, with each discovery adding to a death toll that health officials warn remains incomplete.
Tuesday’s casualties reflect the persistent lethality of the conflict across both Gaza and the West Bank, where military operations, settler violence, and aerial attacks have combined to sustain one of the highest rates of Palestinian civilian casualties since the conflict began. International calls for accountability and protection of civilians have so far failed to produce a durable halt to the violence.
