Israeli Attacks Kill Gazans, Settler Violence Flares in West Bank
GAZA (Dispatches) -- Israeli
forces killed at least three Palestinians across Gaza City on Wednesday, including two in a strike on a tent sheltering displaced families, while raids and settler violence persisted across the occupied West Bank.
In the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood north of Gaza City, Israeli warplanes struck a tent housing displaced people, killing two Palestinians and wounding several others, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Earlier, an Israeli drone struck the roof of a house in the Al-Nasr neighborhood west of Gaza City, killing one Palestinian and injuring others, medical sources said.
Israeli military vehicles also opened heavy fire in central Khan Younis in southern Gaza, while artillery shelled areas north of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
Gaza’s health ministry said hospitals had received eight bodies and 29 wounded in the preceding 24 hours. The cumulative death toll since October 2023 stands at 74,653, with 176,007 injured, according to the ministry.
It said 1,622 Palestinians have been killed and 5,878 wounded since the sham U.S. ceasefire took effect on Oct. 11, 2025, while 850 bodies have been recovered from rubble. Rescue teams remain unable to reach many victims still trapped beneath debris and on roads.
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers launched attacks on Palestinian farmers and residents in multiple locations on Tuesday, with repercussions continuing into Wednesday. Near Hebron (Al-Khalil), several people suffered breathing difficulties from tear gas or were struck by stones, and two farmers were detained by Israeli forces.
In the Nablus area, settlers attacked Palestinians picking olives and solidarity activists, injuring a photographer for the European Pressphoto Agency and a foreign activist.
Near Ramallah, settlers protected by Israeli forces attacked olive pickers and damaged Palestinian vehicles.
Late Tuesday, more than 50 settlers from nearby illegal outposts attacked the village of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya south of Nablus, pouring accelerants over vehicles at a scrapyard and setting them ablaze.
Clashes broke out with residents, and Israeli military vehicles entered the area as the settlers withdrew, witnesses said. Civil defense crews struggled to contain the fire as it threatened nearby homes.
Israeli forces also kidnapped 12 Palestinians across the West Bank, including two former prisoners from Nablus, during raids in several governorates. The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said Israeli authorities had approved plans for new firing ranges at 31 settlement sites across Ramallah, Al-Quds, Nablus, Jericho and the Jordan Valley — a move observers say gives settlers a green light for more organized armed violence.