Four Palestinians, among them a young girl, were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, as the Israeli military keeps expanding its control inside the territory.
The girl was shot dead by Israeli gunfire in northern Gaza, near the Jabalia refugee camp, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. In Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood, a strike on a vehicle killed one person and seriously wounded another, reporter Hani Mahmoud said from the city. A separate strike in the southern city of Khan Younis killed a man riding a bicycle.
The Gaza Health Ministry also said a fourth person died on Thursday from wounds sustained earlier in an Israeli strike.
Israeli forces push deeper into shrinking Gaza territory
Mahmoud said Israeli troops have been seizing more land since the ceasefire, moving from northern Gaza toward the centre and westward. “Israel is expanding their control inside Gaza,” he said. Close to two million people live in what remains of the shrinking territory, which is covered with thousands of tonnes of rubble and debris.
Residents cannot return to their homes, and most buildings in areas under Israeli control lie in ruins, the reporter said. Maps produced by the news network show that nearly two-thirds of Gaza is either under Israeli military control or subject to access restrictions.
Gaza death toll since the October ceasefire
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 1,538 Palestinians have been killed and 5,498 injured since the ceasefire took effect in October last year. Israel has killed more than 74,400 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023.
