5 Palestinians, including child, killed by Israeli fire in Gaza

Five Palestinians, including a child, were killed on Thursday in Israeli airstrikes, shelling and gunfire in different areas of the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian medical and security sources, reported Xinhua.

In the latest incident, an Israeli drone strike targeted the town of Al-Zawayda in central Gaza, killing one Palestinian, Al-Aqsa Hospital said in a statement.

Earlier Thursday, another Israeli drone strike hit a tent sheltering displaced people in the same area, killing one Palestinian, the hospital said.

Meanwhile, a 12-year-old child was killed by Israeli army gunfire east of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Al-Awda Hospital.

In the southern Gaza Strip, Nasser Medical Complex said it received the body of a 54-year-old woman who was killed by Israeli army fire outside areas under Israeli control in the coastal Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis.

In a separate statement, the hospital reported that a 19-year-old girl was also killed by Israeli army fire in the same area.

Palestinian security sources told Xinhua that Israeli military vehicles opened heavy fire on the southern areas of Khan Younis, accompanied by artillery shelling and the demolition of buildings east of the city.

The eastern areas of Gaza City also came under sustained artillery shelling throughout the night, while Israeli tanks and armored vehicles advanced toward the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital and the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, the sources added.

According to the statistics released by Gaza's health authorities on Wednesday, the death toll among Palestinians since the ceasefire took effect in October 2025 had reached 1,602, with 5,794 others wounded.

The figures brought the cumulative death toll in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023, to 74,618, while the total number of wounded reached 175,920.