At least five people were killed on Monday in the Gaza Strip by Israeli attacks, according to local authorities and rescue services in the Palestinian territory. Two children were among the dead.
Two Palestinians were killed in the early hours of the same day when a tent was bombed at a camp in Deir al-Balah, in the central part of the strip, the Hamas-run Civil Defence agency in Gaza said.
Children among the victims
A 10-year-old girl was killed by Israeli artillery fire north of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, according to the same agency and a spokesperson for Nasser Hospital. An Israeli military spokesperson told Agence France-Presse (AFP), which had requested comment on the report, that they had no information on it.
A 4-year-old child died from an Israeli bombardment at the Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, the Civil Defence agency said. It added that a mother and her child were pulled from rubble at the same location.
An Israeli air strike on Khan Younis killed one person and wounded five others, rescue services told AFP.
Desalination unit destroyed
Separately, security sources in Gaza told AFP that Israeli fighter jets destroyed a water desalination unit in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, in the northwestern part of Gaza City, using three missiles. Hazem Qassem, a Hamas spokesperson, condemned the strike, describing it as another attempt to deprive Gaza's residents of every means of survival.
Responding to a question from AFP, an Israeli military spokesperson said the army had not targeted the desalination unit but a Hamas weapons depot inside a nearby mosque. The spokesperson said the military also struck a second weapons depot during the day, this time in Deir al-Balah.
The spokesperson said the two sites, located inside mosques in the Gaza Strip, had been used by Hamas fighters to hide and store weapons, and said warnings had been issued before the strikes to limit the risk to civilians.
Death toll since ceasefire
According to the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip, at least 1,288 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military operations since October 10, 2025, when a fragile ceasefire took effect in the Palestinian territory.
