By Nadine Osman
London, (The Muslim News): The Israeli army confirmed on Monday evening that its forces had killed two Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip, marking the latest violation of the ceasefire agreement that came into effect on October 10. In a statement, the military claimed that the individuals posed “an immediate threat” to troops in two separate incidents.
Earlier in the day, medical sources reported that a Palestinian man had been killed by Israeli drone fire east of the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City. The strike occurred outside the zone from which Israeli forces had withdrawn under the ceasefire agreement, and the victim was identified as Muhammad Nasr Siam. Additional shelling by Israeli artillery targeted the eastern part of the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.
According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, at least 342 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 900 injured in Israeli attacks since the ceasefire began. Since October 2023, more than 70,000 Palestinians—most of them women and children—have been killed in Gaza, and more than 171,000 wounded in the wider conflict, which has left the enclave devastated.
Violence also intensified in the occupied West Bank on Monday, where five Palestinians were injured during an Israeli military raid in the city of Al-Bireh. The Palestinian Red Crescent reported treating two children who were struck by rubber bullets in the Sateh Marhaba area, while three additional injuries resulting from tear gas exposure—including two young women—were recorded. Witnesses said large Israeli forces stormed the Al-Shurfa neighbourhood, sealed off entrances, and deployed throughout residential streets. Several buildings were surrounded and movement was restricted as confrontations broke out.
[Photo: Israeli forces demolish two residential apartments with heavy machinery, sealing off the area and preventing civilians from approaching during an operation in the village of Walaja northwest of Bethlehem, West bank on December 2, 2025. Photojournalist: Mamoun Wazwaz/AA]
The raid followed the forcible evacuation of Palestinian families in the al-Jabriyat neighbourhood near the Jenin refugee camp earlier in the day and came after a four-day Israeli military operation last week across the Tubas Governorate, including the city of Tubas, neighbouring villages, and the al-Fara’a refugee camp. Israeli forces also carried out operations in Qabatiya, south of Jenin, where a curfew was imposed, several homes were converted into military outposts, and multiple Palestinians were detained, according to eyewitness accounts.
Since the outbreak of the Gaza war in October 2023, attacks by Israeli forces and settlers in the West Bank have resulted in more than 1,085 Palestinian deaths, 10,700 injuries, and over 20,500 arrests. In July, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued a landmark advisory opinion declaring Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories illegal and calling for the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Early Monday, the Israeli army launched yet another operation in the city of Tubas and the nearby town of Aqaba, barely a day after withdrawing from the area following its previous four-day assault. According to local correspondents, large Israeli forces spread throughout both locations and imposed a curfew until further notice. Military bulldozers blocked major roads, disrupting movement between different parts of the governorate. Witnesses reported that Israeli troops stormed multiple Palestinian homes, converting some into temporary military positions. The Tubas Governorate stated that this renewed raid followed days of destruction to public and private property, hundreds of injuries, and widespread arrests. In response to the curfew, the Tubas Directorate of Education announced that all schools and kindergartens would shift to remote learning, with the resumption of in-person classes dependent on developments on the ground.
[Photo: A Palestinian girl stands beside the rubble of her demolished home part of two residential apartments demolished earlier in the morning by Israeli forces who used heavy machinery and sealed off the area to prevent civilians from approaching in the village of Walaja northwest of Bethlehem, West bank on December 2, 2025. Pho tojournalist: Mamoun Wazwaz/AA]
