Israeli drone strikes killed at least eight Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, among them five police officers in Khan Younis and a four-year-old boy in Gaza City, hospital sources told Al Jazeera, with further deaths and intense Israeli gunfire reported in the south on Monday, November 2.
Police officers killed in al-Mawasi
The deadliest attack on Sunday hit al-Mawasi, the coastal area west of Khan Younis where large numbers of displaced people live in tents. An Israeli drone struck a group of police officers near the entrance of the Ard al-Manga area, killing five and wounding several others, according to Al Jazeera and the Palestinian news agency Shehab, quoted by Sky News Arabia.
The Palestinian Ministry of Interior and National Security in Gaza said the officers were “performing their routine duties” and described the strike as a “horrific massacre”. It said at least 75 police and security personnel had been killed by Israeli fire since the ceasefire took effect in October 2025.
The Israeli military said its strike targeted “a terrorist” in southern Gaza, Al Jazeera reported. Israel’s Channel 12, cited by Sky News Arabia, said the army had aimed at a senior figure in Hamas’s intelligence apparatus and that the outcome of the strike was still being assessed.
Child among the dead in Gaza City
In the north of the territory, at least three people were killed in a drone strike in the Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City, including a four-year-old boy, according to sources at al-Shifa Hospital. Al Jazeera’s correspondent said the victims, among them a father and his young son, were walking along al-Thawra (Revolution) Street when they were hit. Sky News Arabia, citing Shehab, said several people were wounded in the same area, including children in critical condition.
Another Palestinian died on Sunday from wounds sustained earlier, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA said, after being shot during an Israeli tank incursion into the village of al-Masdar in central Gaza a few days earlier.
Hamas condemned the attacks as a “deliberate war crime”, saying the repeated targeting of police was an attempt to “undermine stability in the Gaza Strip and sow chaos”.
Gunfire and shelling continue on Monday
Violence continued into Monday. Palestinian media reported fierce clashes and intensive Israeli gunfire in Khan Younis, along with naval fire off Rafah and artillery shelling of Deir al-Balah, Sky News Arabia said.
At least three Palestinians were killed and ten wounded in Israeli drone strikes on central and southern Gaza on Monday morning, Al Jazeera reported, citing medical sources. One man was killed and five people were wounded, including a woman and two girls, in a strike in al-Mawasi, while another person died when a drone hit the Faisal school, which shelters displaced families in Khan Younis’s Japanese neighbourhood. A third was killed in al-Masdar, east of Deir al-Balah. The Saudi Press Agency also reported three deaths in fire and shelling that hit a house, a tent and a shelter for displaced people.
A ceasefire under strain
The US-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been in force since October 2025, but deadly incidents have become a near-daily occurrence. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, quoted by Al Jazeera, 1,583 Palestinians had been killed and 5,711 wounded in Israeli attacks since the truce began, as of Sunday. The ministry puts the overall death toll since October 2023 at 74,594.
Palestinian officials and Hamas accuse Israel of systematically breaching the agreement, while the Israeli military, in the case of Sunday’s strike in al-Mawasi, said it had acted against an armed target. Neither side’s account of the latest incidents could be independently verified.
The violence in Gaza comes as Israeli forces maintain a siege on the West Bank city of Hebron, now in its tenth day. The city’s mayor, quoted by Sky News Arabia, described the closure as “collective punishment”, saying around 800 families had been affected and more than 3,000 people displaced by the ongoing military operation.
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