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The IDF said it killed two terror operatives who crossed the Gaza ceasefire line on Thursday and approached troops “in a manner that posed an immediate threat.”
The shooting has become a near-daily occurrence since the ceasefire was implemented on October 10, with over 400 Palestinians killed over the past two and a half months, according to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants.
While the IDF insists that most of those it has killed since the ceasefire were terror operatives, Mideast mediators have accused Israel of repeatedly violating the ceasefire.
In the Thursday night incident, the IDF said the Palestinian suspects approached troops from the 7th Armored Brigade, who called in an airstrike that killed the pair.
“IDF forces from the Southern Command are deployed in the area in accordance with the ceasefire agreement and will continue acting to remove any immediate threat,” the military said.
The statement did not specify what troops did with the two terror suspects’ bodies. Hamas’s health ministry said Friday evening that Gaza hospitals had over the past 48 hours received three bodies of Palestinians killed by the IDF, including one person killed in that period and two killed beforehand.
The Hamas ministry did not identify the dead people or say where or when they were killed.
Palestinian media, including Wafa, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency, reported one Palestinian killed by Israeli gunfire in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday.
According to Wafa, the man was declared dead in a Gaza hospital after being hit in the head by a machine gun bullet near the Hafsa girls’ school, which currently serves as a displaced peoples’ shelter and is located between Gaza City and Jabalia on the Hamas-controlled side of the Gaza ceasefire line. The IDF did not immediately comment on the reports.
According to the Hamas health ministry, 70,945 Gazans have been killed by the IDF since the Hamas-led onslaught of October 7, 2023, which sparked the war in Gaza. Of those, 410 people have been killed since the start of the Gaza ceasefire in early October, the ministry said.
The figures cannot be independently verified and do not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
Israel says it has killed over 22,000 combatants in battle as of August and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught. Israel has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and accuses Hamas of using Gaza’s civilians as human shields.
Major Gaza hospital says it’s suspending service due to gas shortage
Hamas’s health ministry also reported Friday evening that Gaza hospitals received 16 people wounded by IDF gunfire over the past 48 hours. The statement did not say where they were injured or specify the severity of the wounds.
The statement came after a major hospital in the central Gaza Strip said Friday that it suspended services because of a critical fuel shortage in the devastated enclave.
Ravaged by more than two years of war, the Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza’s Nuseirat district cares for around 60 in-patients and receives nearly 1,000 people seeking medical treatment each day.
“Most services have been temporarily stopped due to a shortage of the fuel needed for the generators,” said Ahmed Mehanna, a senior official involved in managing the hospital. “Only essential departments remain operational: the emergency unit, maternity ward and pediatrics.”
To keep these services running, the hospital has been forced to rent a small generator, he added.
Under normal conditions, Al-Awda Hospital consumes between 1,000 and 1,200 liters of diesel per day. At present, however, it has only 800 liters available.
“We stress that this shutdown is temporary and linked to the availability of fuel,” Mehanna said, warning that a prolonged fuel shortage “would pose a direct threat to the hospital’s ability to deliver basic services.”
Khitam Ayada, 30, who has taken refuge in Nuseirat, said she had gone to the facility after days of kidney pain. But “they told me they didn’t have electricity to perform an X-ray… and that they couldn’t treat me,” the displaced woman told AFP.
“They gave me a painkiller and told me that if my condition didn’t improve, I should go” to another hospital, she said. “We lack everything in our lives, even the most basic medical services.”
Hospital official Mehanna urged local and international organizations to intervene swiftly to ensure a steady fuel supply.
Gaza continues to face a severe humanitarian crisis despite the fragile ceasefire that Israel and Hamas agreed to on October 9.
While the ceasefire agreement stipulated the entry of 600 aid trucks per day, only 100 to 300 carrying humanitarian assistance can currently enter, according to the United Nations and non-governmental organizations.
The remaining convoys largely transport commercial goods that remain inaccessible to most of Gaza’s 2.2 million people.
The vast majority of Gaza’s residents rely on aid from UN agencies and international NGOs for daily survival.
Gaza’s health sector has been among the hardest hit by the war. Israel has attacked hospitals repeatedly, accusing Hamas of operating command centers there.
International medical charity Doctors Without Borders now manages roughly one-third of Gaza’s 2,300 hospital beds, while all five stabilization centers for children suffering from severe malnutrition are supported by international NGOs.
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