Media: 50 dead, including 22 children, in fresh Israeli strikes on Gaza

On October 29, Gaza’s civil defence agency said that dozens of Israeli attacks on the Palestinian territory had killed at least 50 people, including 22 children, and wounded around 200.

“At least 50 killed, including 22 children and a number of women and children, as a result of the ongoing Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since last night,” Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for the agency, said, Caliber.Az reports per Al Arabiya.

Around 200 people were wounded “in a clear and flagrant violation of the ceasefire agreement", he said, calling the situation in Gaza “catastrophic and terrifying.”

This comes as the Israeli military issued a statement on October 29 saying that a soldier was killed during fighting in southern Gaza.

The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strikes, which followed a statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office saying he had ordered immediate “powerful attacks.”

An Israeli military official claimed Hamas had violated the ceasefire by carrying out an attack against Israeli forces who were stationed within the so-called ‘yellow line’, the deployment line agreed upon in the ceasefire.

Hamas denied responsibility for the attack on Israeli forces in Rafah, in southern Gaza and said in a statement that it remained committed to the ceasefire deal.

On October 10, 2025, a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas went into effect, marking the first formal pause in hostilities after two years of war.

Despite the ceasefire, the situation remains highly fragile. Skirmishes, violations and mutual accusations of breaches continue, and the peace process is far from stable.

Both sides have accused each other of ceasefire violations.

The war erupted on October 7, 2023, when Hamas and allied militants launched a surprise assault on southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people—mostly civilians—and abducting 251 hostages, including women, children, and the elderly. Israel's retaliatory campaign aimed to dismantle Hamas's military capabilities, imposing a blockade and ground invasion that devastated Gaza.

By October 2025, Gaza's Health Ministry reported over 68,500 Palestinian deaths (including thousands under rubble) and 170,000 injuries, with 90% of the 2.3 million population displaced multiple times amid famine warnings and infrastructure collapse. The conflict spilled regionally, drawing in Hezbollah in Lebanon, Houthis in Yemen, and Iranian proxies, while U.S. and allied strikes targeted Iranian nuclear sites in June 2025.

By Khagan Isayev