Israeli forces kill 24 Palestinians in Gaza; Hamas urges US to intervene

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Israeli forces kill 24 Palestinians in Gaza; Hamas urges US to intervene

Israeli attacks target Palestinians in their cars, shelters and homes in latest violation of the US-brokered truce

Israeli ceasefire violations: More than 20 Palestinians killed in wave of strikes

By Al Jazeera Staff and News Agencies
Published On 22 Nov 2025


Israel’s military has launched a wave of air attacks across Gaza, killing at least 24 Palestinians, including children, in its latest violation of a six-week old ceasefire in the war-torn territory.

The attacks on Saturday also wounded 87 others, according to authorities in Gaza.

Witnesses said the first strike hit a car in northern Gaza City, and was followed by more attacks in central Deir el-Balah and the Nuseirat refugee camp.

The drone attack in Gaza City killed at least 11 people and wounded 20 others, according to the managing director of al-Shifa Hospital, Rami Mhanna. It happened in the city’s Remal neighbourhood.

In Deir el-Balah, at least three people, including a woman, were killed when an Israeli strike hit a house there.

Khalil Abu Hatab, a witness, said the attack caused a “powerful explosion”.

“I looked outside and saw smoke covering the entire area. I couldn’t see a thing. I covered my ears and started shouting to the others in the tent to run,” he said.

“When I looked again, I realised the upper floor of my neighbour’s house was gone. It’s a fragile ceasefire. This is not a life we can live. There’s no safe place.”




‘Systematic violations’

The Israeli attack on Nuseirat also hit a residential building.

Anas al-Saloul, who witnessed the attack, said he was sitting in his home when a missile suddenly hit his neighbour’s house.

“We took the injured and came to the hospital,” he said. “There were injuries and deaths, and everyone in the street was covered in debris,” he added.

According to the Gaza Government Media Office, Israel has violated the United States-brokered ceasefire at least 497 times since it came into effect on October 10.

Some 342 civilians have been killed in the attacks, with children, women and the elderly accounting for the majority of the victims.

“We condemn in the strongest terms the continued serious and systematic violations of the ceasefire agreement by the Israeli occupation authorities,” the office said in a statement.

“These violations constitute a flagrant breach of international humanitarian law and the humanitarian protocol attached to the agreement. Among these violations, 27 occurred today, Saturday, resulting in 24 martyrs and 87 wounded,” it added.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said it launched the attacks after a Hamas fighter attacked Israeli soldiers in Israeli-held territory.

“In response, Israel eliminated five senior Hamas [fighters],” it said in a statement.

There was no immediate comment from Hamas on the slain fighters.




‘Fabricated pretexts’

Earlier in the day, as the attacks unfolded, the Palestinian group accused Israel of violating the truce “under fabricated pretexts” and called on mediators – the US, Egypt and Qatar – to intervene immediately.

It also said Israel has pushed westward beyond the yellow line, where Israeli troops are stationed in Gaza, and is changing the boundary set out as part of the deal.

“We call upon the mediators to intervene urgently and exert pressure to immediately halt these violations,” the Palestinian group said in a statement. “We also demand that the US administration fulfil its commitments and compel [Israel] to implement its obligations, and to confront its attempts to undermine the ceasefire in Gaza.”

A senior official also dismissed reports in Saudi Arabia-owned Al Arabiya that claimed it had called off the ceasefire.

“Israel is fabricating pretexts to evade the agreement and return to the war of annihilation, while it is the one violating the agreement daily and systematically,” Izzat al-Risheq, member of the Hamas political bureau, told Quds News Network.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said the latest attacks were traumatising for Palestinians.

“This is a reminder that the ceasefire is quite fragile, and in fact, [the] violence never ended at all,” he said. “What was going at a very fast pace in the past few years has now turned into this slow and steady pattern of killing,” he added.




West Bank attacks

Meanwhile, more Israeli military and settler violence was reported on Saturday in the occupied West Bank amid what the United Nations has described as a record-breaking surge in attacks on Palestinians.
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The Palestinian news agency Wafa said Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian farmers southeast of Masafer Yatta, in the West Bank’s South Hebron Hills area.

Separately, Wafa said Israeli soldiers also wounded two Palestinians during a raid in Dura, a town south of Hebron.

Israeli attacks in the West Bank have increased in the shadow of Israel’s war on Gaza, which has killed nearly 70,000 Palestinians in the coastal enclave since October 2023.

They also come as members of Israel’s far-right government push to formally annex the territory.




Last week, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights noted that 260 Israeli settler attacks were recorded in October – more than in any month since 2006.

“The surge in violence comes as Israeli authorities have ramped up home demolitions, the seizure of property, arrests, and movement restrictions, alongside the unabated building of settlements and outposts and the forcible displacement and transfer of thousands of Palestinians by Israeli settlers and the military,” Thameen al-Kheetan said in a statement.

“Permanently displacing the Palestinian population within occupied territory amounts to unlawful transfer, which is a war crime. The transfer by Israel of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies also amounts to a war crime.”