Artillery fire injures Palestinians in eastern Gaza City
A second shell set a house alight near the al-Sanafour intersection, ten months into a ceasefire under which 1,262 people have been killed.
Gaza's emergency and ambulance services said Israeli artillery fire wounded Palestinians in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, on Monday, landing on ground that lies outside the zones Israeli forces hold under the ceasefire.
They said a further shell struck a house near the al-Sanafour intersection in the same neighbourhood and started a fire at the site. No figure was given for the number of people hurt.
Local sources reported two Israeli airstrikes on areas east of Gaza City over the same hours, along with fire from Israeli helicopters over that area and artillery shelling of areas south of Khan Younis, in the south of the Strip.
The damage to housing is the part that carries furthest. A neighbourhood east of Gaza City has little spare shelter to absorb the loss of one more standing house, so a fire started by a single shell displaces a household into a rental market and an aid queue that were already full before it burned.
Figures published by the Palestinian Ministry of Health put the toll since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October 2025 at 1,262 people killed and 4,168 wounded. A further 808 bodies have been recovered and are counted separately from those killed in new attacks.
The ministry's cumulative count since the war began on 7 October 2023 stands at 73,391 people killed and 174,280 wounded.
Read against the ten months the agreement has been in force, the ceasefire figure is less a record of its collapse than of how it operates: the framework holds on paper while the count beneath it keeps moving, and Monday's shelling adds to a total that has been accumulating steadily since October rather than marking a break from it.