Israeli airstrikes kill four in displaced persons' camp in Khan Younis
An Israeli airstrike struck a tent encampment housing displaced Palestinians in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, on 26 October, killing four people including seven-year-old Jouri al-Soufi. The strike was part of a broader wave of Israeli attacks across Gaza that killed at least eleven people and wounded fifty over the same 24-hour period. According to Al Jazeera's count, the overall war death toll has now reached 74,555, with 1,559 deaths occurring since the ceasefire began last year.
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Israeli forces conducted multiple air and ground attacks across Gaza on 26 October, killing at least five people and wounding more than a dozen others, according to Palestinian medical sources. In al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, an airstrike struck a camp housing displaced Palestinians, killing four people. Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis confirmed the deaths and identified three victims as Hossam al-Zamli, aged 21, Tamer Abu Sneima, aged 24, and seven-year-old Jouri al-Soufi, according to Gaza's Ministry of Education. Hospital staff reported that bodies had been "torn apart by direct hits from shrapnel" and that several wounded people, including a child and a woman, were admitted for treatment. In a separate incident, an Israeli drone attack struck the Remal neighbourhood west of Gaza City, killing another person who had been sheltering in a tent with other displaced people, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa and Al-Shifa Hospital. Palestinian Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal reported that Israeli fire and airstrikes across Gaza had killed eleven people and wounded fifty over the preceding 24 hours. Al Jazeera's tallies indicate that the overall death toll in the war has reached 74,555, with 1,559 deaths occurring since the ceasefire took effect last year.
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