Two Palestinians were killed and three others injured in Israeli gunfire, drone fire and shelling in Gaza City and Beit Lahia on Saturday morning, Palestinian medical sources told the WAFA news agency, in the latest deadly incidents reported despite the US-sponsored ceasefire that took effect in October 2025. WAFA's sources said a drone-fired missile hit a gathering near Palestine Stadium in the al-Rimal neighbourhood of western Gaza City, killing a young man, and that a girl was killed by gunfire in the Tal al-Dhahab area northwest of Beit Lahia. A woman was also reported wounded by drone fire in the Jabalia refugee camp. The girl is not named here, in line with this site's rule of never identifying a minor victim.

Source: Press TV (reporting WAFA medical sources), Oct 24, 2026

The Associated Press, in its Saturday Middle East roundup, gave a lower confirmed figure for the same morning: it reported that Israeli strikes on Saturday killed at least one person in Gaza City and injured others, according to health officials at Shifa hospital, and that strikes on Friday had killed three people in southern Gaza and Gaza City. The AP said Israel's army did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the Saturday strikes. The difference between 'at least one' (AP, via Shifa) and 'two' (WAFA medical sources) is noted here rather than merged.

Source: Associated Press via EuropeSays, Oct 24, 2026

The Gaza Health Ministry on Saturday updated its cumulative toll to 74,540 Palestinians killed and 175,678 injured since the war began on October 7, 2023, and said 1,547 people have been killed and 5,559 injured since the ceasefire took effect in October 2025. A multi-outlet comparison of the ministry's daily report said hospitals had received 10 people killed and 62 injured over the previous 48 hours, with a further 42 deaths added to the cumulative total after verification by the ministry's committee. The ministry is part of the Hamas-run government in Gaza; its figures are regarded as generally reliable by UN agencies and independent experts, according to the AP, and it does not distinguish between civilians and militants.

Source: Democrata (reporting Gaza Health Ministry), Oct 24, 2026

WAFA's sources also reported artillery shelling west of Rafah, fired from positions east of Khan Younis, and intense tank fire east of the al-Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City on Saturday morning. Palestinian authorities condemned the incidents as violations of the ceasefire agreement; Israel has previously said its forces respond to attacks and threats by Hamas, which it accuses of violating the truce — Hamas denies that. No Israeli statement on Saturday's specific incidents had been reported at the time of publication. Sources: WAFA medical sources via Press TV, the Associated Press, and the Gaza Health Ministry via Democrata.

Source: NewsCord (10-outlet comparison, Shifa and Health Ministry), Oct 24, 2026