Middle East Conflict: More Deaths in Gaza, Journalists Injured in West Bank
Theo Al Jazeera
A year after the ceasefire, Israeli strikes continue in Gaza, where a four-year-old boy died from earlier wounds and a vehicle strike killed one person. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli raids wounded a child and two journalists, while Prime Minister Netanyahu vowed to expand Israeli control.
According to Al Jazeera, an Israeli airstrike on a vehicle in Gaza City on Tuesday killed one person and wounded several others, according to rescue services. The attack hit the Tuffah neighborhood in the northeast of the city. The same day, in az-Zawayda in central Gaza, a four-year-old boy named Osama Ahmed Abed died from wounds sustained in an Israeli attack three weeks earlier, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. His death brings the total number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, to more than 74,382.
The Gaza Civil Defense agency expressed deep concern over repeated forced displacement near the "Yellow Line," the boundary from which Israeli forces withdrew under the October 2025 ceasefire. The agency said "large explosions" and "indiscriminate gunfire" by Israeli forces destroyed hundreds of tents belonging to displaced people and further damaged homes that had already been hit. It called for urgent intervention to "end the war against civilians."
Gaza Shrinking
Al Jazeera maps show that nearly two-thirds of Gaza is now under Israeli military control or has restricted access. The "Yellow Line," established under U.S. President Donald Trump's 20-point plan to end the war, is said to mark where Israeli forces first withdrew, with further pullbacks to follow later. However, Israeli forces have seized additional territory. The U.S.-backed Peace Committee marked one year of the ceasefire with a post saying Trump's leadership "ended an endless war." At least 1,400 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since the ceasefire began, and no Palestinian technocratic administration has been established. More than 80 percent of buildings in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged.
Raids in the Occupied West Bank
In the occupied West Bank, Israeli attacks in Ramallah and el-Bireh wounded a child with live fire and left many Palestinians suffering from tear gas inhalation, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Palestine TV correspondent Khaled Mattawa was injured in the hand by a sound bomb, and Sky News Arabia correspondent Firas Lutfi was injured in the leg by shrapnel, Wafa reported. Israeli forces also raided the offices of several Palestinian NGOs and the courtyard of the Palestine Medical Complex.
Al Jazeera correspondent Nida Ibrahim, reporting from Ramallah, said the attacks were "another step aimed at weakening the Palestinian Authority." Human rights lawyer Muhammad Dahleh said Israel uses laws and military orders to shut down Palestinian human rights groups, calling them "terrorist organizations based on privileged evidence" that is not provided to the groups and their lawyers. Several organizations were banned in 2021, and legal challenges were rejected by Israeli military authorities, according to Dahleh.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video on X that Israel is "preparing for the scenario in which Palestinian Authority forces turn their guns against Israel in the West Bank." He said: "There will be no Arab army west of the Jordan River. There will only be [Israeli forces]," adding that Israel will expand its control across the territory.
