Child shot at a Beit Lahia displacement camp dies of his wounds

A Palestinian child died on Thursday evening of wounds he had received when Israeli troops fired on a camp for displaced families in Beit Lahia, in the north of the Gaza Strip, local sources said. They named him as Ahmad Ramzi Aqel.

The same sources said the families sheltering at the site remained within reach of Israeli fire after he was hit. Elsewhere in the Strip that day, local reports described artillery fire on areas southwest of Khan Younis in the south, and drones flying over the area for long stretches.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health puts the number of people killed since the ceasefire took effect in October 2025 at 1,273, with 4,223 wounded, and says the bodies of 813 more have been recovered over the same period. Its cumulative count since October 2023 stands above 73,400.

The ministry has said that people are still lying unrecovered under rubble and along roads, and that rescue and civil defence crews are struggling to reach the areas where they are.

A camp is not a place a household can decide to leave. The families in Beit Lahia's shelters have already moved at least once to get there, and what a displacement site offers against gunfire is a tarpaulin. That is why a single burst of fire directed at one of them is counted differently from fire in a built-up street: nobody inside has the option of going home.