In brief
Four Palestinians died in Israeli airstrikes on Oct. 28, with a missile striking a Hamas‑run checkpoint in Rafah’s Mawasi area and a separate strike targeting a crowd in Khan Younis’s Al‑Bayouk neighbourhood. Medical and local sources report three killings in the first strike and one in the second, and the Gaza health authorities have reported 1,568 deaths since the October 2025 ceasefire and 74,564 since the initial 2023 conflict. No Israeli military comment has yet been released.
At least four Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to Palestinian medical and local sources.
A local source reported that an Israeli drone fired a missile at a checkpoint operated by the Hamas‑run Crossings and Borders Authority in the Mawasi area of Rafah, southern Gaza. The strike killed three people and wounded several others, some seriously, according to medical sources. Victims reportedly worked for Gaza’s agriculture, economy, and petroleum and gas authorities.
Separately, a medical source said an Israeli airstrike targeted a group of people in the Al‑Bayouk neighbourhood in central Khan Younis, killing one person.
Gaza's health authorities recorded the overall death toll since the ceasefire that took effect in October 2025 as 1,568, with 5,649 wounded. Cumulative figures since the outbreak of the 2023 conflict on Oct. 7, 2023, stand at 74,564 deaths and 175,770 wounded.
The Gaza Strip has been the site of intense fighting since the 2023 conflict began, with health officials collecting daily casualty figures. In past weeks, Gaza’s authorities have reported that each day dozens of Palestinians are killed or wounded by clashes, aerial attacks, and artillery strikes.
There has been no immediate comment from the Israeli military regarding the strikes, leaving the details of the operations and victims’ identities unclear.
