GAZA — Israeli air attacks and gunfire killed at least four Palestinians in separate incidents across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, health officials said, as strikes continued despite the US-brokered ceasefire that took effect in October 2025. An Israeli airstrike on an apartment in Gaza City killed Akram Yassin and his wife Dina Abu Baker, medics said on Tuesday, Al Jazeera reported.

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In Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, a 17-year-old boy was killed by Israeli gunfire near the Qizan an-Najjar neighbourhood, and another person was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Zeitoun suburb east of Gaza City, Al Jazeera reported. The Israeli military also carried out artillery attacks in other areas south of Khan Younis, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. According to Reuters, the Israeli military said it had targeted an armed individual in the Gaza City area but gave no further details, and it did not immediately comment on the two shooting incidents.

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At least 4Palestinians killed in Tuesday's separate incidents, health officials said
74,480People killed in Gaza since October 2023, according to Gaza health authorities
1,522Palestinians killed since the October 2025 ceasefire began, according to Gaza health authorities

"A surge overnight": drones and jets over central Gaza

Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah, said there had been a surge in Israeli attacks across Gaza overnight and into the early hours of Tuesday. "The attacks have been pretty much concentrated on Gaza City, where a residential flat was targeted without any warning," he said, describing "very distressing scenes" and footage showing the scale of destruction across the residential area. "We also saw a clear activation of Israeli drones and fighter jets through the early hours of this morning across the central areas of the territory," he added.

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Palestinians inspected the aftermath of the strike on the Gaza City apartment before gathering for the couple's funeral. "We're supposed to be in a ceasefire period, but honestly, we are not seeing a ceasefire or anything. The war is still going on, assassinations are continuing, and the shelling has not stopped," Mahmoud Yassin, whose brother Akram was killed, told the Reuters news agency.

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Tuesday's killings follow Monday's attacks, when Israeli strikes killed at least four Palestinians — in Khan Younis, in Al-Mussadar and in a strike on a vehicle in Gaza City's Tel Al-Hawa neighbourhood — in the same pattern of near-daily fire under the ceasefire. Read Monday's Gaza strikes report

The toll since the ceasefire

Israel's war on Gaza has killed at least 74,480 people and wounded another 175,539 since October 2023, according to the Gaza health authorities. Since the ceasefire in October 2025, 1,522 Palestinians have been killed and 5,421 wounded in Israeli attacks, and 839 bodies have been recovered from under the rubble, the health authorities said. About 82 percent of structures in Gaza — roughly 200,000 buildings — have been damaged, with about two-thirds of them destroyed since the start of the war, according to the United Nations.

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Why it matters

The ceasefire was meant to halt the fighting and open the way to reconstruction, yet Palestinians are still being killed almost every day — in their homes, as in the Gaza City flat on Tuesday, as well as by gunfire in the south. Each new day's toll deepens the question hanging over the truce: whether it can hold at all, and what it means for the families still living among the rubble — and for the wider region, where the Gaza file sits alongside the US-Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz crisis.