Israel Violates Ceasefire: Deadly Gaza Airstrikes Kill 44 Palestinians Including Women and Children
Gaza | October 20, 2025 | PIC
Israeli forces on Sunday carried out heavy airstrikes across Gaza in what Palestinian officials described as a serious violation of the ongoing ceasefire. The attacks left dozens dead and many others injured.
According to Gaza hospitals, at least 44 Palestinians were killed in the latest wave of bombings that began early Sunday morning. Among the victims were women and children, with dozens of wounded rushed to different hospitals across the Strip.
Medical sources confirmed that:
- 3 bodies were received at Al-Shifa Hospital,
- 18 at Al-Awda Hospital,
- 12 at Al-Aqsa Hospital,
- and 3 at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
In one strike near a camp for displaced families in northern Khan Younis, an Israeli drone attack killed three civilians, including two children and a woman. Another ten people were wounded, most of them children.
Separately, Israeli tanks shelled the eastern parts of Khan Younis, destroying several buildings. Two more Palestinians were killed in bombings near Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, while additional strikes hit the Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City.
Journalists were also targeted. In central Gaza’s Al-Zawaida area, an airstrike on a residential building used by media workers killed two journalists from the PMP Media Company. Earlier the same afternoon, a drone strike on a gathering of civilians in the same area killed six people and injured many others. Witnesses said the drone fired at a group of residents standing outside a local café.
The victims were later identified by local media as Yahya al-Mabhouh, Muslim Badr, Zakaria Abu Habl, Hussein al-Sawalha, Mohammed Abu Rafie, and Aed Salman.
Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (reported as Yisrael Katz in some sources) vowed harsher retaliation, declaring on social media platform “X” that “Hamas will pay a heavy price for every bullet and every ceasefire violation.”
Israeli media claimed that Palestinian fighters attacked a military vehicle in eastern Rafah, killing two soldiers and injuring four others. However, Palestinian sources rejected this account, insisting the explosion was caused by an Israeli landmine planted earlier during the war — later blamed on resistance fighters to justify breaking the ceasefire.
Since the start of the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement on October 10, 2025, Israel has reportedly violated the truce 47 times, resulting in 38 Palestinian deaths and 143 injuries — a clear breach of international humanitarian law.
