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SvennoJ on 28 October 2025
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Israeli forces destroy more residential buildings across Gaza

Israeli forces are targeting residential buildings in central and southern Gaza despite the ceasefire. Our correspondents on the ground said Israeli forces have bombed and destroyed civilian homes in eastern Gaza City and the Bureij refugee camp.

Meanwhile in southern Gaza, Palestinian media sources reported that Israeli forces destroyed buildings in the Morag Corridor, an Israeli-established “security corridor” that cuts off Rafah from the rest of the Gaza Strip.



Sound of Israeli drones and explosions trigger ‘deep trauma’ in Gaza despite ceasefire

Even with the ceasefire technically in place, the sound of drones in the skies above makes Gaza feels anything but calm.

Israeli drones hover at a dangerously low level, particularly when it comes to the eastern part of the Gaza Strip, which is technically under Israeli control. It’s just a constant reminder of how fragile this ceasefire is.

Throughout the night, there were also the sounds of explosions – small but persistent. And if the ceasefire sounds like this, people ask the question: Will it hold if we keep hearing the sounds of explosions, heavy artillery on and off, and the sounds of drones?

People here tell us that the fear has not left them at all, that the mechanical hum of drones is deeply rooted in their daily life because, after two years of bombardment, these sound like a warning for them.

Parents are reporting children waking up in the middle of the night and mistaking the hum of the drones for an air raid, and adults tell us how they flinch at any noise – whether doors slamming or a truck backfiring.

So that’s the by-product of two years of relentless bombardment that has left people with this deep trauma.


Palestinian couple care for 36 orphaned grandchildren in Gaza

Israel’s war on Gaza has left at least 17,000 children orphaned, according to the Palestinian Bureau of Statistics. For one couple, that tragedy has meant taking in 36 grandchildren who have lost their parents.

“These children need care. They need food, water and special attention,” grandmother Rida Aliwa told Al Jazeera. “I wake up at 3am every day to bathe and feed them. I do all this despite my old age.”

Grandfather Hamed Aliwa said protecting the dozens of children is even more difficult as war threatens to resume and basic goods are lacking. “We live under the constant sound of drones that keep us awake all night, and we are scared that the war could start again,” he said.


Children play on the rubble of destroyed homes at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City