LONDON: Two Palestinians were killed on Thursday in separate Israeli strikes in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and in Gaza City, while several others were wounded, Palestinian medical sources and emergency workers said.
An Israeli drone strike killed one person and wounded several others near the Palestinian Red Crescent Society building in the Al-Amal neighborhood west of Khan Younis, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Nasser Hospital received the body and the wounded after a motorcycle carrying two people was struck.
In Gaza City, Israeli forces bombed a vehicle in the Sheikh Ajleen neighborhood southwest of the city, killing one Palestinian and injuring several others, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
Ambulance crews transported the dead and wounded to Al-Shifa Hospital in western Gaza City, the organization said.
The strikes came amid continued Israeli attacks despite a ceasefire that took effect in October 2025.
Maysa Yousef, a mother of three and resident of central Gaza, described conditions as “very bad,” citing persistent artillery fire, illumination flares and the presence of quadcopter drones.
“Khan Younis and eastern Deir Al-Balah are nearby; there is artillery shelling and illumination flares all the time, day and night,” Yousef told Arab News. “Of course, quadcopter drones are constantly in the sky around us.”
She said Israeli forces sometimes fired indiscriminately near areas close to the so-called Yellow Line, causing deaths and injuries.
“Yesterday, there was shelling in Beit Lahia in the north that hit a tuk-tuk and a person,” Yousef said. “The day before yesterday, another person was killed.”
She also said Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza was evacuated after reports that it could be shelled. Patients, displaced people in nearby camps and journalists in tents were forced into the streets before later returning, she added.
“The Yellow Line advances every day,” Yousef said. “There is daily artillery shelling, along with bulldozers and tanks pushing forward.
“I can now clearly see the high sand and earth berm from my home. We feel trapped and watched all the time.”
Since the ceasefire began, Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,260 Palestinians and wounded more than 4,150 others, while 808 bodies have been recovered, according to Gaza’s local health authority.
On Aug. 10, UN experts condemned what they described as a sharp escalation of attacks on Palestinian civilians across the occupied Palestinian territories during July.
In Gaza, Israeli forces killed about 160 Palestinians in July, including women, children and older people, the experts said. They said most of the killings occurred in densely populated areas sheltering displaced people, including Al-Mawasi, and away from what Israel calls the Yellow Line.
The experts also said the continued westward expansion of the line, construction of a 23-kilometer barrier along it and the systematic demolition of residential buildings were reshaping Gaza’s geography through force and displacement.
The Yellow Line is the Israeli military’s ceasefire-era demarcation line inside Gaza, marking territory where Israeli forces remain deployed.
The UN experts also warned that food aid was still not entering Gaza freely and said goods brought in through commercial channels were often ultra-processed and inadequate both nutritionally and culturally.
