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Israel detains 7-year-old boy near occupied West Bank’s Ramallah

Israeli forces have detained a seven-year-old child in Mughayyer, east of Ramallah, according to his father.

The boy, Bahaa Kazim Haj Mohammed, had been held in an Israeli military jeep for an hour when the father spoke to Al Jazeera’s team on the ground about the ongoing ordeal. Three days ago, the Israeli forces detained the boy’s older brother and ransacked his house.

More than 9,300 Palestinians remain in Israeli prisons: Prisoners’ group

The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society says that among the 9,300 people held by Israel are at least 75 women and 250 children. It has stressed that the total number does not include all the people Israel detained in Gaza, estimating that there are thousands.

Israeli prison authorities have announced the detention of 899 Palestinians from the enclave under the classification of an illegal fighter, the group said.



At least 37,337 Palestinians killed in Gaza since October 7: Ministry

At least 37,337 Palestinians have been killed and 85,299 injured during Israel’s war on the enclave since October 7, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

Several Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on central Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp

An Israeli air strike on the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza has killed several people. Among those killed by the attack are Rafeef Alsaidi, 13, and the elderly Abdelshafi Hussein, whose children have been seriously injured.

Those injured have been taken to Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah. As Muslims in Gaza marked Eid al-Adha in Gaza, one man said his daughter was killed while walking in the street on the “Eid of the kids”.

Israeli attacks kill 2 in Rafah, ambulances targeted

Israel has killed two people in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood and targeted ambulances trying to respond to the casualties, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

Tal as-Sultan, in western Rafah, still hosts hundreds of Palestinian families displaced by the war, according to Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud. The neighbourhood has been especially hard hit in Israel’s latest wave of strikes, which destroyed many homes and public facilities.



Desperation as displaced people queue for donated food in Khan Younis camp