A Palestinian woman lost her life and two individuals sustained injuries during an Israeli airstrike that struck a residential building in Gaza City early Wednesday.
Medical personnel at Al-Shifa Hospital confirmed that the body of 33-year-old Reem Asaad Awad was brought to the facility alongside two wounded victims, which included a young girl.
The missile hit an apartment in the Rimal neighborhood, leaving severe destruction and damaging surrounding structures. Civil defence teams rushed to the scene to extinguish a large fire that erupted following the explosion.
In a separate incident in the northeast of the city, witnesses reported that Israeli military vehicles and quadcopter drones directed heavy gunfire at Palestinian homes in the Tuffah neighborhood. Explosive devices were also dropped along Al-Sikka Street in the immediate vicinity.
Military forces carried out a large-scale demolition operation, blowing up residential buildings in areas under their deployment east of Gaza City.
Further south in the central enclave, Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers pushed beyond existing control lines east of Deir al-Balah. Gunfire struck homes along Salah al-Din Street and caused widespread panic among civilians.
Artillery shelling targeted areas northeast of the Bureij refugee camp, and an unmanned drone dropped an explosive onto a civilian tent, though no casualties were reported from these central sector incidents.
According to figures from the Gaza Health Ministry, ongoing Israeli violations of the October 2025 ceasefire have resulted in the deaths of at least 1,498 Palestinians and left 5,306 others wounded.
Since the broader conflict began in October 2023, the military campaign has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, injured over 175,000, and damaged or destroyed approximately 90 percent of the enclave’s infrastructure.
