Israeli attacks kill at least four Palestinians in Gaza

A couple and a 17-year-old are among those killed by Israeli air attacks and gunfire in the Gaza Strip.

A Palestinian boy views the damage inside an apartment hit in an Israeli attack, in Gaza City, on October 20, 2026 [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

At least four Palestinians, including a couple and a 17-year-old, have been killed in Israeli air attacks and gunfire in separate incidents in the Gaza Strip, health officials said.

An Israeli air strike killed Akram Yassin and his wife Dina Abu Baker in an apartment in Gaza City, medics said on Tuesday.

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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. Another person was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Zeitoun suburb east of Gaza City.

The Israeli military also carried out artillery attacks in other areas south of Khan Younis, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

‘Distressing scenes’

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah in Gaza, said there has been a surge in Israeli attacks across Gaza overnight and into the early hours of Tuesday.

“We can see that the attacks have been pretty much concentrated on Gaza City, where a residential flat was targeted without any warning,” he said.

“We are seeing very distressing scenes, and footage coming from the site of the attack shows the scale of destruction that has been inflicted upon the whole residential area,” he added.

“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.”

Palestinians inspected the aftermath of the strike on the apartment in Gaza City 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 was killed, told the Reuters news agency.

Mourners react during the funeral of Palestinian Tamer al-Sabagh, who was killed in an Israeli attack on Monday, in Gaza City, October 20, 2026 [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza has killed at least 74,480 people since October 2023, with another 175,539 wounded, according to the Gaza health authorities.

Since the so-called “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.

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.

在加沙地带，以色列的空袭和枪击造成一对夫妇和一名 17 岁少年丧生。

2026年10月20日，在加沙城，一名巴勒斯坦男孩正在查看以色列袭击中受损的公寓。[Dawoud Abu Alkas/路透社]

卫生官员称，在加沙地带发生的几起独立事件中，至少有四名巴勒斯坦人死于以色列的空袭和枪击，其中包括一对夫妇和一名 17 岁的少年。

周二，医护人员表示，以色列空袭导致阿克拉姆·亚辛和他的妻子迪娜·阿布·贝克在加沙城的一间公寓内丧生。

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在加沙南部汗尤尼斯，一名17岁男孩在基赞安纳贾尔附近被以色列枪击身亡。另有一人在加沙城东部的宰图恩郊区被以色列枪击身亡。

据巴勒斯坦通讯社瓦法社报道，以色列军方还在汗尤尼斯以南的其他地区发动了炮击。

“令人不安的场景”

半岛电视台记者塔里克·阿布·阿祖姆从加沙代尔巴拉赫报道称，以色列在加沙地带发动的袭击在周二凌晨至凌晨期间激增。

他说：“我们可以看到，袭击几乎都集中在加沙城，那里的一处居民公寓在没有任何警告的情况下遭到袭击。”

“我们看到了非常令人痛心的景象，从袭击现场传出的视频显示，整个居民区遭受了多么严重的破坏，”他补充道。

“我们还看到，今天凌晨，以色列无人机和战斗机在该地区中心地带进行了明显的飞行活动。”

巴勒斯坦人在加沙城查看了公寓遭袭后的景象，然后聚集在一起参加这对夫妇的葬礼。

“我们本应处于停火期，但说实话，我们根本没看到停火。战争仍在继续，暗杀仍在继续，炮击也没有停止，”马哈茂德·亚辛（他的兄弟在战争中丧生）告诉路透社。

2026年10月20日，在加沙城，人们在巴勒斯坦人塔梅尔·萨巴格的葬礼上表达哀悼，他于周一在以色列的袭击中丧生。[Dawoud Abu Alkas/路透社]

据加沙卫生部门统计，自 2023 年 10 月以来，以色列对加沙巴勒斯坦人发动的种族灭绝战争已造成至少 74480 人死亡，另有 175539 ​​人受伤。

自 2025 年 10 月所谓的“停火”以来，已有 1522 名巴勒斯坦人在以色列的袭击中丧生，5421 人受伤，另有 839 具尸体从废墟下被找到。

据联合国统计，加沙地带约 82% 的建筑物（约 20 万栋）遭到破坏，其中约三分之二的建筑物自战争开始以来被摧毁。