At least eleven Palestinians were killed on Tuesday across Gaza and the occupied West Bank in a wave of violence that underscores the fragility of a ceasefire announced in October. Seven of the deaths occurred in Gaza, where Israeli strikes hit multiple locations over a 24-hour period, while four Palestinians were killed in the West Bank — including a teenager struck by a vehicle in a ministerial security convoy and two others shot dead in a settler attack on a school.
In Gaza, strikes near Khan Younis in the south killed three people, among them a man who had recently married. A drone attack east of the city claimed another life, while Israeli naval shelling of tent encampments sheltering displaced families northwest of Beit Lahiya, a town in northern Gaza, killed a woman. A child, Abdullah Dawas, died from a gunshot wound to the head sustained ten days earlier near a clinic in Jabalia refugee camp. Another attack at a roundabout in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighbourhood killed one person and injured several others. According to Gaza's Ministry of Health, 784 Palestinians have been killed and over 2,200 wounded since the October ceasefire took effect, while the broader conflict — which began on 7 October 2023 — has killed at least 72,560 people in the territory.
In the occupied West Bank, a 16-year-old named Mohammad Majdi al-Jaabari was cycling to school near Hebron shortly after dawn when he was struck and killed by a vehicle belonging to a private security firm escorting an Israeli minister's convoy. Hebron, known in Arabic as al-Khalil, is a city in the southern West Bank and home to several Israeli government ministers who live in nearby settlements. Israeli newspaper Haaretz cited an anonymous source identifying the convoy as belonging to Settlement Minister Orit Strock. In the village of al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah — the de facto administrative centre of the Palestinian Authority — settlers opened fire on a boys' school, killing a 14-year-old student and a 32-year-old man. Witnesses said soldiers present were protecting the settlers rather than intervening to stop them. A 49-year-old woman also died from injuries sustained during an Israeli military raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank.
The incidents highlight patterns that human rights organisations have long documented. According to the Israeli army's own figures, settler attacks in the West Bank averaged 2.4 per day in 2025, while the United Nations puts the number even higher. The Israeli NGO Yesh Din has found that 94 percent of investigations into settler violence end without prosecution. Palestinian analyst Mariam Barghouti described the attacks as part of an effort to displace Palestinians from their land through intensified violence. All Israeli settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law. Since 7 October 2023, the Palestinian Health Ministry says 1,152 Palestinians — including 239 children — have been killed in the West Bank.