Israeli attacks on Gaza City and Khan Younis kill nine

GAZA CITY — Israeli attacks on Gaza City and Khan Younis killed at least nine people on Sunday, 1 November, Al Jazeera reported. Reports from the Gaza Strip described the strikes as new attacks despite a ceasefire agreement that took effect on 10 October 2025.

Al Jazeera English's video report gave the overall toll of at least nine dead but did not give a breakdown by location or name the victims. A post on Telegram by TRT World, a Turkish broadcaster, reported at least eight Palestinians killed and others wounded across Gaza on 1 November. That post, which is not independently verified, said five people died in an airstrike in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, and three, including a child, died in a strike on al-Thawra Street in Gaza City.

The TRT World post also cited Gaza's Health Ministry as saying that 1,580 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the ceasefire began on 10 October 2025. The ministry figure was reported second-hand in that post. Zenga News has not seen the ministry statement directly, and the figure has not been confirmed by an official release available to this report.

The two sources differ on the total. Al Jazeera put the toll at no fewer than nine. TRT World's post said at least eight. The difference may reflect later counts or different reporting cut-offs, but the sources do not say so.

No Israeli military statement on the strikes was included in the material available to this report. Neither source said whether the targets were militants or civilians, and neither reported on the injured in detail.

Why it matters

Strikes in densely populated areas of Gaza City and Khan Younis affect families who have few places to shelter. The reported location of the al-Mawasi strike is a coastal area west of Khan Younis that has been used by many displaced people. The reported death of a child in the al-Thawra Street strike adds to concern for civilians, many of them Muslims, in a territory where most residents are Palestinian Muslims.

Background

Gaza is a small coastal territory on the eastern Mediterranean, bordering Israel and Egypt. Gaza City is its largest city, and Khan Younis is a major city in the south. Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that governs Gaza, agreed a ceasefire that took effect on 10 October 2025, according to the figures cited in the TRT World post. Under that agreement, both sides were expected to halt attacks. The reports from 1 November suggest that strikes have continued since then.

What happens next

The sources do not report any scheduled talks, votes or court dates linked to these strikes. No statement from the Israeli government or military was included in the material available to this report, and no response from Hamas was reported. Further casualty counts and an official account of the strikes have not been published in the sources reviewed.