Overview
- Al Shifa Hospital officials say five Palestinians, most of them children, were killed when fire struck a school shelter in Gaza City’s Al-Tuffah neighborhood.
- The Palestinian civil emergency service said bodies were retrieved only after UN humanitarian coordinators secured access with Israeli authorities.
- The Israeli military said troops targeted individuals it deemed suspicious outside the Yellow Line demarcation and that the incident remains under review.
- Since the October ceasefire began, roughly 400 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, according to Gaza health officials, while Israel reports three soldiers killed in the same period.
- Video reviewed by CNN shows an Israeli soldier shooting a 16-year-old at close range in Qabatiya, as the IDF asserts he hurled a block; a second Palestinian was killed in a separate West Bank raid.