An Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on Monday killed two people, a six-year-old girl and a woman, as the IDF continues regularly killing children in its constant violations of the US-backed ceasefire deal.
Palestinian medics and witnesses told Reuters that the attack was carried out by two Israeli helicopters and struck a tent, killing six-year-old Mennatallah Abu Libda and 31-year-old Hanoun Mahmoud. Seventeen other people were injured in the attack, including a baby whose foot was severed, according to Drop Site News.
Photos and videos from the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis show Palestinians mourning Abu Libda and other children who were injured in the attack. “This little girl, a little bird from the birds of paradise, was playing at the door of her home,” Abu Libda’s grandmother told Reuters.
The attack marked at least the third day in a row that the Israeli military killed a child in Gaza. On Saturday, an Israeli attack that killed five police officers in Gaza City also killed a 13-year-old boy, and a six-month-old baby was “cut into pieces” by an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza on Sunday, along with his father and mother.
The Israeli military claimed on Monday that the father of the six-month-old baby was involved in weapons production for Hamas, but it provided no evidence for the claim. The family was killed as they slept in an apartment in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, according to relatives.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said in its daily update on Monday that it recorded the Israeli killing of five Palestinians and the injury of eight over the previous 24-hour period. “A number of victims are still under the rubble and in the streets, as ambulance and civil defense crews have been unable to reach them so far,” the ministry wrote on Telegram.
Since the so-called ceasefire deal was signed in October 2025, the IDF has killed at least 904 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 2,713. Israel has also violated it by continuing restrictions on aid entering Gaza and taking more territory, expanding the IDF-occupied area to 60% of the Strip.
