An eight-year-old Palestinian boy, identified as Fadi al-Deiri, died Wednesday from wounds sustained when an Israeli drone strike hit a civilian car in the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City the previous evening. The strike had already killed three people, including a child, and wounded three others when it first hit the vehicle; al-Deiri’s death raised the toll from that single strike to four.
Separately, a woman was wounded by Israeli naval gunfire off the Gaza coast the same day. In the West Bank, Israeli forces launched a pre-dawn campaign of raids and arrests across multiple governorates, detaining more than 20 Palestinians, including the father of a slain fighter and a released prisoner, according to the (non-governmental) Prisoners’ Media Office. Hebron governorate saw the largest single operation, with 11 people detained after troops stormed several neighborhoods, held dozens of residents, and converted a family reception hall belonging to the Ja’bari family into a makeshift field interrogation center. Israeli forces also demolished a home in Hebron during the same operation.
3) Gaza Health Ministry: 13 New Deaths in 24 Hours as Strikes Continue Across the Strip
Meta description: Gaza’s Health Ministry recorded 13 new deaths and 18 injuries in a single 24-hour period, as Israeli shelling and gunfire persisted across multiple neighborhoods of Gaza City.
Gaza’s Health Ministry announced Wednesday that hospitals across the strip had received 13 new bodies over the preceding 24 hours, along with 18 additional wounded, as Israeli forces continued shelling and gunfire in scattered areas.
Local sources reported that an elderly man and his wife were wounded in Israeli artillery fire that targeted the area around the former Setar factory, south of the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City. Separately, Israeli bulldozers were seen pushing concrete blocks near al-Ridwan Mosque toward Salah al-Din Street, close to the same former factory site, in what appeared to be a fortification or access-control effort in the area.