Fresh rounds of Israeli military operations and settler-led attacks have left multiple Palestinians dead, including two minors, and dozens injured across the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, shattering the already fragile ceasefire brokered by the United States that went into effect in October 2025.
The first fatality reported on Sunday was a 14-year-old Palestinian shot in the chest by Israeli forces during a military incursion into the Askar refugee camp located east of Nablus, according to Al Jazeera, which cited an anonymous medical source confirming the teenager’s death.
Parallel violence unfolded in central Gaza over the weekend, where Israeli airstrikes targeted two populated areas: the Nuseirat refugee camp and the nearby town of az-Zawayda. Local medical officials at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital confirmed that two Palestinians were killed in the attacks, with seven additional people sustaining injuries. A separate Israeli airstrike carried out along central Gaza’s major Salah al-Din Street left one more Palestinian dead and two others wounded, Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reported, citing multiple medical sources.
Since the October 2025 ceasefire took hold, the violence has not let up. Data from Palestinian local health authorities shows that more than 1,280 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in the months following the truce agreement. The Israeli military, for its part, has confirmed that four of its soldiers have been killed during operations in the same period.
Israeli military activity extended to multiple other locations across the occupied West Bank over the weekend. Late Saturday, Israeli forces entered the central district of Tulkarm, deploying live ammunition and stun grenades against local residents, Wafa confirmed. Following raids on residential properties in the nearby West Bank towns of Zeita and Seida, Israeli forces detained five Palestinian civilians.
In the Tubas governorate, an Israeli raid left 11 people — four of them children — suffering from tear gas inhalation, with emergency medical teams from the Palestine Red Crescent Society providing on-site treatment. Just southeast of Tubas in the town of Tammun, Israeli settlers assaulted a 15-year-old Palestinian boy, beating him severely before Red Crescent medics treated him for his injuries.
On Sunday morning, Israeli forces completed a full closure of the only functional access point to al-Mughayyir village, located northeast of Ramallah, blocking all movement in and out for local residents. Local media outlets report that Israeli soldiers harassed and interrogated passing commuters, and fired tear gas at civilian vehicles that attempted to cross the sealed entrance.
In the greater Nablus region, Israeli forces arrested one Palestinian and seized two civilian vehicles following raids on the villages of Beita, Tal and Beit Dajan. East of Bethlehem, Israeli settlers encroached on privately owned Palestinian agricultural land in the village of al-Maniya, uprooting dozens of mature olive and grape vines that formed the core of local families’ livelihoods, Wafa reported.
Meanwhile, the ongoing siege of the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, entered its 15th consecutive day on Sunday. Israeli settlers have maintained a constant cordon around three residential properties in the village’s Ras al-Ain area, with Israeli soldiers backing the blockade by blocking all entry and exit to the neighborhood. Wafa confirmed that the three besieged Palestinian families are facing severe water shortages, after settlers blocked access roads and halted all supply deliveries to the area.
The latest surge in violence comes as Israeli military operations continue at scale across both Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Since large-scale hostilities began in October 2023, official Palestinian health data records that at least 73,419 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza, with an additional 174,364 people sustaining injuries.