Israel Kills Gazans, Locks Down Al-Khalil, Demolishes Homes in Lebanon and Syria
GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) -- Israeli forces on Saturday killed at least three Palestinians in Gaza, launched sweeping arrest and lockdown measures across the occupied West Bank following a deadly attack on soldiers, carried out demolitions in southern Lebanon, and conducted incursions in southern Syria.
In Gaza, medical sources said Fatima Abu Laban, a Palestinian woman, was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Tal al-Dhahab area of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, while another woman was wounded in the neck.
In a separate incident, Muhammad Anan al-Rawagh, a Palestinian youth, was killed and three others wounded in an Israeli drone strike on the al-Rimal neighborhood west of Gaza City. Witnesses said a drone fired at least one missile at passersby near Palestine Stadium.
Israeli naval vessels also fired gunshots and shells toward Gaza City’s coastline. Gaza’s Health Ministry said Israeli ceasefire violations have killed 1,547 Palestinians and wounded 5,559 since the truce took effect on October 10, 2025.
In the occupied West Bank, Israel’s terrorist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a full lockdown of Hebron (Al-Khalil) and announced preparations for a military onslaught of a scale “unseen since 1967,” after two Palestinians killed two Israeli soldiers near Al-Khalil in a heroic operation on Friday.
Netanyahu said the onslaught would involve evacuating residents from the attackers’ neighborhood, conducting house-to-house searches, and destroying their property.
Israeli rights group B’Tselem called for urgent international pressure to prevent “plans for collective punishment and acts that could constitute war crimes”.
On Saturday morning, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that terrorist Israeli settlers attacked farmworkers in Khirbet Soba, west of Al-Khalil, injuring several, while in Beit Iksa northwest of Al-Quds, dozens of settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives under military protection.
Since October 2023, at least 1,143 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the occupied West Bank.
In southern Lebanon, Israeli forces carried out a series of explosions and continued demolition operations in the town of Khiam, according to the Lebanese National News Agency.
Artillery shelling was reported in Mansouri, Majdal Zoun, Haddatha, and the outskirts of Zbraheen, while machine-gun fire was directed toward Bayyada and Beit Yahoun.
Israeli bulldozers opened a road between Birket al-Naqqar and Wadi Houratha in the Shebaa area. An Israeli drone dropped a sound bomb near farmers harvesting olives in the town of Yater, with no injuries reported.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says at least 4,389 people have been killed and 12,424 injured since the Israeli offensive began on March 2, 2026.
In southern Syria, Israeli forces kidnapped a young Syrian man from the town of Hadar in the northern Quneitra countryside while he was grazing sheep, and shelled areas near the villages of Zubaida and Hamidiya, according to the official Syrian news channel.
Israeli military vehicles penetrated westward of the village of Saida al-Hanout in the southern Quneitra countryside, and forces stationed on the western Red Hill fired machine guns toward agricultural land around the town of Kodna.
Israeli reconnaissance aircraft flew intensively over the western Dara’a countryside. Amnesty International said Saturday that Israel continues to carry out lethal military attacks in Syria and has committed unlawful destruction of civilian property.