Israeli drone strike kills 12-year-old and wounds seven in Gaza; forces kill man in West Bank raid

Israeli forces killed a 12-year-old boy named Ahmed in a drone strike on a tent in the al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis on Wednesday. Health officials at the Nasser Medical Complex reported that at least seven other Palestinians were wounded in the attack. The area had been designated a safe zone by Israeli authorities.

In the northern occupied West Bank, Israeli special forces raided the town of al-Yamoun on Wednesday afternoon, surrounded a house, and shot Mohammed Nazem Zayed, 29. Palestinian Health Ministry officials said forces opened fire with live ammunition and left him to bleed to death. An Israeli news site described the incident as an operational activity by the Duvdevan unit.

The strikes occurred despite a ceasefire that took effect in October 2025. Gaza’s Ministry of Health recorded at least 1,027 people killed and 3,280 injured in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then. Cumulative figures since October 2023 show 73,041 Palestinians killed and 173,402 wounded across Gaza.

A United Nations commission of inquiry released a report the day before the strikes, concluding that Israel’s deliberate targeting of children forms part of an ongoing genocide in Gaza. Commission chair Srinivasan Muralidhar stated that evidence shows Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed, with continued disregard for the ceasefire and international protections even after October 2025.

In the West Bank, at least 71 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the start of 2026.

Official Palestinian figures record 1,173 killed, 12,666 wounded, about 23,000 arrested, and 33,000 displaced by army and settler escalation since October 2023.