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Mourners gather around the bodies of members of the Abu Dalal family, who were killed in an overnight Israeli strike on their home, according to medics, in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, October 29, 2025. Credit: Mahmoud Issa/ REUTERS. Published by Haaretz

Palestinians try to recover a body from the rubble of a house destroyed in an overnight Israeli strike, in Gaza City, on October 29, 2025. Credit: AFP/OMAR AL-QATTAA. Published by Haaretz

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by IMEMC News
Oct 20, 2025

On Wednesday evening, the 19th day of the declared “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israeli warplanes launched new airstrikes on the northern part of the Strip, killing two Palestinians in Beit Lahia’s al-Salatin neighborhood. Medical sources at al-Shifa Hospital confirmed the deaths, marking yet another breach of the truce.

In total, at least 113 Palestinians were killed in the past 24 hours, including 46 children and 20 women, and more than 534 others were injured.

The strikes targeted homes, displacement tents, and public roads. Of the fatalities, 44 occurred in northern Gaza, 46 in central areas, and 20 in the south. Israeli forces also wired and detonated residential buildings in eastern Gaza City.

The Israeli military claimed the renewed offensive was in response to alleged attacks by Palestinian fighters on Israeli soldiers.

Hamas denied involvement, accusing Israel of fabricating pretexts to justify escalation and calling on international mediators to intervene.

Separately, the Israeli army announced the death of a reserve soldier following an attack on a military unit in Rafah on Tuesday. Hamas stated it had no connection to the incident and urged ceasefire guarantors to pressure Israel to halt its violations.

Israeli media reported that Israel is preparing to receive the remains of captives, although no formal notification has been received from the International Committee of the Red Cross.

A senior Hamas official told Al Jazeera that the Israeli occupation is obstructing search efforts and spreading false claims about delays by the resistance, accusing Israel of using these narratives to justify further aggression.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the Israeli airstrikes and resulting civilian deaths, calling the attacks a violation of the ceasefire and a threat to international humanitarian law.

In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Guterres urged all parties to uphold their commitments and protect civilian lives.

Caroline Willemen, project coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) in Gaza, stated that Israel continues to weaponize humanitarian aid as part of its military strategy.

She emphasized that the humanitarian situation remains dire, with no meaningful improvement in access to clean water or shelter.

Despite international efforts, basic necessities remain critically lacking, and the blockade continues to prevent the delivery of essential supplies.

In a move emblematic of its erratic approach to ceasefire enforcement, the Israeli army announced a formal return to the ceasefire on Wednesday morning—just hours after unleashing a wave of airstrikes and artillery fire across the besieged enclave.

The overnight bombardment killed at least 100 Palestinians, including 24 children, and wounded dozens more. Hospitals are overwhelmed, treating patients with shrapnel wounds and internal bleeding, while families across Gaza held funerals for loved ones.

The director of the Medical Relief Society in Gaza warned of a catastrophic collapse in chronic disease care.

More than 350,000 diabetic patients currently lack access to medical follow-up, and Gaza has lost 40% of its kidney patients due to the shutdown of dialysis services and the absence of life-saving medications.

These figures reflect the devastating impact of Israel’s blockade and repeated attacks on Gaza’s healthcare infrastructure.

Despite the ceasefire remaining officially in effect, today’s attacks represent one of the deadliest violations since the truce began.

Mediators including the U.S. and Qatar insist the agreement is still in place, but the scale of destruction and civilian casualties has drawn widespread condemnation.

As of October 29, 2025, Gaza’s Health Ministry reports a cumulative toll of 68,527 Palestinians killed and 170,395 injured since October 7, 2023. These figures include thousands of children, women, journalists, and humanitarian workers.
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Israel Killed More Than 100 Gazans in a Single Day. The IDF Says Just 26 of Them Were Terrorists

The Israeli military said that the attacks targeted 'dozens of key terrorists,' but only provided details on the killing of 26 people. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, 104 people were killed in the attacks, including 46 children and 20 women

by Nir Hasson for Haaretz
06:02 AM • October 30 2025 IST

About 75 percent of those killed in the Israeli attack in Gaza Tuesday night were civilians, according to statements from the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces.

The attacks by the Israel Air Force came after armed Palestinians opened fire on a Combat Engineering Corps unit in Rafah, in the southern part of the Strip, killing Master Sgt. Yona Efraim Feldbaum, a 37-year-old reservist, on Tuesday. The Gaza Health Ministry said 104 people were killed in the retaliatory attacks, including 46 children and 20 women. The IDF spokesman said 26 targets were hit, among them nine Hamas company commanders, others affiliated with Islamic Jihad and terrorists involved in rocket production.

Among the targets that were hit were dozens of key terrorists, observation posts, an arms production site, rocket and mortar launching sites and an underground passage, the army said.

Two of the attacks were directed at two homes belonging to the Abu Dalal family in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. Eighteen people were killed in the attacks, including five women and an unspecified number of children. The intended target appears to have been Yahya Abu Dalal, who the IDF said is a deputy commander of Islamic Jihad's central Gaza camps division.

The IDF's list of targets also included Nazmi Abu Dalal, but his name was not among those the family said had been killed.

Among those who were killed in the attack were Ameen Abu Dalal, who in the past had worked with The Sameer Project humanitarian group. In a statement, the organization said he was killed with his wife and two children, three-year-old twins Sham and Yahya Abu Dalal, his three brothers, his mother and father.

Another air force attack on a tent next to Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah left five dead, among them three children, according to Palestinian reports. In one attack, a 41-day-old infant was also killed.

One of the names appearing in the IDF target list was Muhammad Minrawi, who, according to the army, was "responsible for anti-tank forces in northern Gaza." Palestinian sources said the man, who was killed with his wife in a tent in Nuseirat, worked as a journalist for a Palestinian newspaper. The newspaper's website showed his byline on several articles, but the last one was dated from 2022.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared an article claiming that the ratio of civilians to armed men killed in the Gaza Strip was no more than 1.5 civilians for every armed man.

That figure, however, doesn't match most of the figures that have been collected on the war. For example, in Operation Gideon's Chariots, the IDF said it killed "more than 2,100 terrorists" at a time when the Hamas Health Ministry reported total fatalities of 10,576, a ratio of five civilians killed for every terrorist. Other research conducted during the war also revealed a much higher ratio of civilians to combatants than Israel claimed.

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