Israel Kills Over 100 Palestinians In Overnight Bombardment Of Gaza

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Israel kills over 100 Palestinians, including more than 45 children, in heavy overnight bombardment of Gaza. President Trump defends Israel’s attacks, while saying “Nothing is going to jeopardize” the ceasefire. Israeli forces arrest dozens in raids in the occupied West Bank.

The Genocide in Gaza

• At least 104 Palestinians in Gaza were killed, including 46 children and 20 women, in Israeli attacks on Gaza overnight, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. At least 253 Palestinians were wounded, including 78 children and 84 women. The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023 is now 68,643 killed, with 170,655 injured.
• Since October 11, the first full day of the ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 211 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 597, while 482 bodies have been recovered, according to the Ministry of Health.
• Among those killed was Mohammed al-Munirawi, a journalist with Palestine Newspaper, along with his wife, as they were sheltering in a tent in Nuseirat, central Gaza. According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, al-Munirawi’s death brings the total number of journalists killed since the start of the war to 256.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he had ordered the military to conduct “powerful strikes” on Gaza following an exchange of gunfire in Rafah. The Israeli military later said an Israeli soldier, who held U.S. citizenship, was killed in the attack. The heavy Israeli attacks also came amid accusations that Hamas turned over the body parts of an Israeli captive whose remains had been recovered by Israel nearly two years ago. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement, “Anyone who raises a hand against [Israeli] soldiers, his hand will be severed” and also pointed to “the blatant violation of the agreement to return the fallen hostages.” Israel had notified the U.S. before launching the strikes on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.
• The Israeli military on Wednesday claimed that it struck dozens of targets after the ceasefire was violated by Hamas. The military claimed it “will continue to enforce the implementation of the agreement and will respond forcefully to every violation of it.”
• Hamas denied involvement in the Israeli soldier’s death. According Walla, a Hebrew news outlet, the Israeli military believed that the fighters who clashed with Israeli troops in Rafah were likely an isolated and disconnected cell that had been besieged for a long time, and that the Israeli military was unable to say whether the attack was approved by the Hamas leadership.
• In response to the Israeli attacks, Hamas said it would delay handing over the remains of another Israeli captive which had been scheduled for Tuesday night. “The world must understand that the blood of our children and women is not cheap, and that the resistance—with all its factions that committed to the agreement with responsible will and remains committed to it—will not allow the enemy to impose new realities under fire,” Hamas said in a statement. Hamas also calls on the mediators and guarantors to assume their full responsibilities regarding this aggressive breakdown, and to exert immediate pressure on the occupation government to stop its massacres and commit fully to the terms of the agreement.”
• Before the latest overnight strikes, Gaza’s media office accused Israel of violating the ceasefire over 80 times, killing 97 Palestinians and injuring 230.
• In Rafah, Israeli naval and armored units opened fire along the coast and city outskirts, while in Gaza City an airstrike hit a home in Al-Shati camp belonging to the Salem family. Medical sources reported injuries after an attack on a school sheltering displaced families in Beit Lahia, while strikes on a Khan Younis apartment, belonging to the Al-Qudra family, killed Hatem Maher Al-Qudra and a child, Karim Hazem Al-Qudra.
• Three Palestinians were killed in new Israeli airstrikes on a tent in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis—an area Israel had previously designated a “safe zone” for displaced families.
• Journalist Musab Al-Shareef documented the aftermath of an Israeli strike on Gaza City that killed 10 people, including four children and two women. The victims were brought to Al-Shifa Hospital, where footage showed families mourning as medical teams struggled to identify the dead.
• Palestinian baby Osama Abu Snineh and his siblings were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, according to local reports. Their deaths add to the growing toll of children killed in renewed Israeli bombardments despite the declared ceasefire.

Ceasefire Updates

• Aboard Air Force One, President Donald Trump defended the Israeli assault, saying, “As I understand it, they took out an Israeli soldier. So the Israelis hit back and they should hit back. When that happens, they should hit back.” He added, “Nothing is going to jeopardize” the ceasefire and that “If they (Hamas) are good, they are going to be happy and if they are not good, they are going to be terminated—their lives will be terminated.” Vice President JD Vance said the ceasefire “is holding,” characterizing the Israeli attacks that killed dozens of children as “little skirmishes here and there.”
• The International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday it was misled by Hamas during a purported recovery of Israeli captive remains in Gaza, calling it “unacceptable that a fake recovery was staged.” The group said it had agreed “in good faith” to witness the operation but was unaware a body had been placed before its arrival, as shown in Israeli drone footage that has not been authenticated. Israeli officials said the remains were those of Ofir Tzarfati, already recovered in 2023.

West Bank and Israel

• Israeli forces raided the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem, arresting about 50 Palestinians, many of whom were recently released from Israeli custody, according to Al Jazeera. Nine Palestinians were also arrested in raids in other parts of the occupied West Bank.
• Israeli settlers cut down some 50 olive saplings and stole construction equipment in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa. Israeli settlers and soldiers have carried out more than 250 attacks on Palestinian olive farmers since the harvest began earlier this month, according to the Ramallah-based Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission.
• Imad al-Franji, a veteran Palestinian journalist and university professor, described the torture and systematic abuse he endured during months in Israeli custody before his release under the Oct. 13 ceasefire deal. Seized during an Israeli raid on Al-Shifa Hospital in March 2024, al-Franji said he and others were stripped, beaten, and bound before being taken to the Sde Teyman detention camp, where he heard detainees “screaming under torture”—some of whom were sexually assaulted with electric batons, some of whom were hung by their genitals. He recounted being blindfolded and shackled for 100 days, deprived of sleep and prayer, and later transferred to Ofer Prison, where prisoners were attacked with dogs, stun grenades, and electric batons. Arrested at 110 kilograms and freed at 66, he said starvation was part of the punishment, adding that journalists were “more guilty in their eyes, because you expose their crimes.” His account was published by Al Jazeera and Asra Media, and confirmed by the Committee to Protect Journalists.