At least four Palestinians, including a married couple and a 17-year-old boy, were killed in separate Israeli air strikes and shootings in the Gaza Strip, health officials said.
Medics said an Israeli air strike killed Akram Yassin and his wife, Dina Abu Baker, in an apartment in Gaza City on Tuesday.
In Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, a 17-year-old boy was killed by Israeli gunfire near the Qizan an-Najjar neighbourhood. Another person was also killed by Israeli fire in the Zeitoun area, east of Gaza City.
According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the Israeli military also carried out artillery shelling in other areas south of Khan Younis.
‘Heartbreaking scenes’
Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah in Gaza, said Israeli attacks had intensified across Gaza overnight and into Tuesday morning.
“We can see that the attacks were mainly concentrated on Gaza City, where a residential apartment was targeted without any warning,” he said.
“We are witnessing very heartbreaking scenes, and the images from the scene of the attack show the extent of the destruction to the entire residential area,” he added.
“We also saw Israeli drones and fighter jets clearly active in the early hours of this morning across the central areas of the strip.”
Palestinians inspected the aftermath of the strike on the Gaza City apartment before gathering for the couple’s funeral.
“We are supposed to be in a ceasefire phase, but in reality we see no ceasefire or anything like it. The war continues, the assassinations continue, and the shelling has not stopped,” Mahmoud Yassin, the victim’s brother, told Reuters.
According to Gaza health authorities, Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 74,480 people since October 2023, while another 175,539 have been wounded.
Since the “ceasefire” agreement in October 2025, 1,522 Palestinians have been killed and 5,421 wounded in Israeli attacks; 839 bodies have been recovered from the rubble.
According to the United Nations, about 82 percent of structures in Gaza, or roughly 200,000 buildings, have been damaged, with about two-thirds destroyed since the war began.
