Drone strike on a tent by Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital kills two

Two Palestinians were killed early on Monday when an Israeli drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, in the centre of the Gaza Strip. Medical sources at the hospital named them as Mohammed Nasser Abu Assad and Ibrahim Nasser Abu Assad, and said several other people were wounded in the strike. No figure was given for the wounded.

The munition came down on canvas. A tent is what remains of housing for most families in the centre of the Strip, and it stops nothing — the difference between a direct hit and a near miss is measured in metres of ground rather than in walls. That the tent stood beside a hospital compound also says where people have gone looking for safety.

The strike came after a day in which two Palestinians, one of them a child, were killed and 14 wounded across central Gaza, according to medical sources. Two of Sunday's deaths and seven of the injuries were attributed to a strike on the town of Az-Zawayda, which followed an Israeli evacuation warning. Artillery shelling also hit an area south of the Maghazi refugee camp.

Local sources gave a separate account of Sunday's toll, reporting that a drone fired on people gathered by the industrial solar station where Salah al-Din Road runs into al-Maghazi, killing Ismail Abu al-Foul, a man displaced from the north of the Strip, and leaving one of the wounded in a critical condition. The two accounts of Sunday differ over where the deaths occurred, and neither has been reconciled with the other.

The Ministry of Health puts the number of Palestinians killed since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October 2025 at 1,286, with 4,257 wounded. Its cumulative count since October 2023 stands at more than 73,000 killed and over 174,000 wounded.

Alongside the strikes, demolition work has continued inside the area known as the Yellow Line, and restrictions remain on the movement of goods, aid and people. Ten months into an agreement that was meant to stop the killing, the daily entries in the ministry's ledger are people who were told the war had ended where they were sitting.