GAZA/RAMALLAH (Dispatches) -- Israeli forces killed a Palestinian woman in an airstrike on Gaza City and settlers set fire to a mosque in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, as violence persisted despite a sham ceasefire in the enclave.
Medical sources at Al-Shifa Hospital said Reem Asaad Awad, 33, was killed when an Israeli aircraft targeted a residential building in the Rimal neighborhood of western Gaza City before dawn. 
Two people, including a girl, were injured, and the strike caused extensive destruction to the apartment and neighboring buildings. Civil defense crews extinguished a large fire that broke out after the attack.
Witnesses reported Israeli military vehicles and quadcopter drones opening heavy fire toward homes in the Tuffah neighborhood, northeast of Gaza City, while explosive devices were dropped on Al-Sikka Street. 
In central Gaza, Israeli vehicles and bulldozers advanced beyond areas under army control east of Deir al-Balah, and artillery shelling hit areas northeast of the Bureij refugee camp.
The strikes mark continued violations of the October 2025 ceasefire. Gaza’s Health Ministry said Wednesday that 1,501 Palestinians have been killed since the truce took effect, with 5,323 injured. The overall death toll since October 2023 rose to 74,392, with 175,440 wounded.
In the West Bank, Palestinian security sources told Xinhua that settlers stormed the village of Mikhmas, east of Ramallah, after midnight and set fire to a mosque, an olive tree, and a vehicle. 
Rawhi Fattouh, head of the Palestinian National Council, condemned the arson as “a barbaric act and a dangerous escalation of settler terrorism,” accusing the Israeli government of protecting settler groups.
A 17-year-old Palestinian boy was injured when settlers attacked farmers harvesting olives in the town of Beita, south of Nablus. Settlers also attacked olive pickers in Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah, and in Ya’bad, southwest of Jenin, stealing olives and forcing farmers off their land despite prior coordination with Israeli authorities.
Amir Daoud, an official from the PLO’s Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, said settler attacks have become “an organized policy aimed at displacing citizens and preventing them from accessing their lands”.
In Hebron (Al-Khalil), Israeli occupation forces demolished an 80-square-meter Palestinian home in the hamlet of Aghziwa, south of Yatta, according to local sources. Israeli forces also raided multiple towns and villages across the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorate, conducting home searches and field interrogations.