GAZA CITY: Gaza’s health and security officials said on Tuesday that Israeli strikes killed at least four people in the Palestinian territory, including a member of Hamas’s security service and a teenage girl.
Nasser Hospital in Hamas-run Gaza said three people were dead on arrival, and several others were wounded after an Israeli strike hit a tent sheltering displaced people west of Khan Yunis in the south.
Hamas’s interior ministry also said a member of its internal security service, Mohammed Shalouf, was killed in an airstrike in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis. Israel’s military said that it had struck military operatives in the area, without giving more details.
In a separate strike, a girl was killed when an Israeli drone struck a tent in a park in Gaza City, Gaza’s civil defence spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said. Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital identified the girl as 17-year-old Rimas al-Madhoun, and pronounced her dead on arrival.
Israel agreed in Oct 2025 to a ceasefire brokered by the United States but has since advanced further into Gaza.
Israeli ex-generals condemn settler violence A group of senior Israeli ex-military officials helped Palestinian farmers on Tuesday to harvest olives, in a gesture of solidarity amid an upsurge in militant settler violence targeting Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
‘When I see what is going on here, when I see these guys come... and hit women and kids, it reminds me of stories from my parents from the time when the Jewish people suffered,’ said former Major General Eyal Ben-Reuven, who compared the militant settler attacks to pogroms.
Ben-Reuven said he began organising a group of around 30 senior military officials including six generals several months ago following an increase in settler violence that many Palestinians say is enabled by the Israeli military. The Israeli military has said it condemns violence and it operates to maintain security in the West Bank.
‘Occupation is the main problem of Israeli society.
I believe we must deal with it, we cannot ignore it.
We must try to solve it together with the Palestinians, said former Colonel Doron Meinert. Ben-Reuven and others said they were also concerned about the impact of settler violence on Israel’s global reputation.
‘Strategically, tactically, it’s creating problems for the state of Israel in the West and the United States, said Jonatan Yoni, a former brigadier general, who said he was also motivated by the plight of Palestinian farmers and by opposition to Israeli annexation of the West Bank.
Nimr Nazzal, the owner of land near the village of Qusra where the ex-military personnel were helping out, said that without them it would be impossible for him to access his olives due to settler attacks.
He added that many of the settler attacks had the support of the Israeli military. ‘The army is protecting the settlers,’ said Nazzal.
The Israeli rights group Yesh Din has reported 180 physical attacks on Palestinian olive harvesters over the 35 days since the season began. The Israeli military was present in more than 23pc of the cases of settler violence it recorded, Yesh Din said.
Palestinians say that when they call the Israeli military, it either responds late or comes to the aid of the settlers perpetrating the violence. The military denies this.-Agencies