GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Gaza’s civil defense service reported that Israeli strikes killed 10 people on Saturday, with Israel’s military saying one of the dead was a Hamas “terrorist cell commander.”
In Gaza City, a drone strike killed eight people and wounded 15 others in the Jawazat camp for displaced people, according to the civil defense, a rescue service that operates under the authority of the Islamist movement Hamas.
The city’s Al-Shifa Hospital also reported receiving eight bodies.
“We targeted terrorists in that sector,” the Israeli army told AFP, without providing further details.
Further south, a 25-year-old man, Muhannad Othman Farwana, was killed in the morning in a strike on a tent, the civil defense said.
Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said the man’s body had been brought in along with several wounded.
In a statement, the Israeli army said Farwana was “a terrorist cell commander in the military wing” of Hamas, adding he had been killed in a precision strike.
The strike hit his tent on the roof of his house, just before he was due to get married later in the day, said his cousin Mohammed Farwana.
“The whole family was ready to celebrate his wedding. Now, we’re attending his funeral instead,” he told AFP.
The civil defense announced in the evening another person killed in an Israeli strike in southeast Gaza City, identifying him as a 37-year-old man.
Israel and Hamas accuse each other of near-daily violations of the truce meant to halt the war in Gaza, which was triggered by Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel.
At least 951 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire took effect in October 2025, according to Gaza’s health ministry, which operates under Hamas authority and whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations.
The Israeli army has reported five deaths in its ranks during the same period.
Restrictions imposed on media outlets and limited access in Gaza prevent AFP from independently verifying tolls or freely covering the violence there.
