2 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza despite ceasefire

Two Palestinians were killed, and others injured early Monday in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreement in effect since Oct. 10, 2025.

An Anadolu correspondent, citing a medical source, said Mohammed Abdul Nasser Abu Asad, 27, was killed and others were injured, one of them seriously, when an Israeli drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people near Shuhadaa Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza.

Separately, another Palestinian died of wounds sustained in an Israeli drone strike Sunday that targeted a tent sheltering displaced people west of the city, a medical source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said.

The Israeli strike had injured seven Palestinians at the time.

Eyewitnesses also reported heavy Israeli gunfire from military vehicles toward homes and tents for displaced people in southern and eastern Khan Younis, with no injuries reported.

Israeli artillery also shelled the Abu Rashid area south of Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, witnesses said.

The attacks came despite US President Donald Trump’s call for Israel to stop strikes on Gaza.

In an interview with Fox News on Aug. 17, Trump said “Israelis should not be striking in Gaza. Hamas agreed to lay down their weapons,” under his plan to end the war in the enclave.

In a separate report Monday, Gaza’s Government Media Office said Israel had committed 4,379 violations of the ceasefire agreement since it took effect.

The violations killed 1,286 Palestinians and injured 4,257 others, while 180 people had been detained, the office said, adding that 813 bodies had been recovered from under the rubble, out of more than 8,000 people still missing beneath the debris.

On humanitarian aid, the office said only 66,607 aid trucks had entered Gaza out of the 189,000 that were supposed to enter by Monday, describing this as a 35% compliance rate.

Israel continues to block the agreed quantities of food, medicine, medical supplies, shelter materials and prefabricated homes from entering Gaza, where around 2.4 million Palestinians live, including 2.15 million displaced people, under catastrophic conditions, it added.

Regarding travel, the office said Israel had allowed only 11,759 people to leave Gaza out of 29,800 who were supposed to be enabled to travel since the reopening of the Rafah crossing with Egypt, a 39% compliance rate.

The office called on mediators Egypt, Qatar and Türkiye, as well as the guarantors of the ceasefire agreement, to pressure Israel to implement all terms of the deal and halt its continued violations.

Israel has carried out a genocide in Gaza since Oct. 8, 2023, killing more than 73,000 Palestinians and wounding more than 174,000, most of them women and children, while destroying about 90% of the territory’s infrastructure.