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Israeli Attacks Kill Three Palestinians in Gaza, Testing Fragile Truce

Smoke rises from Gaza after an explosion, on the day the Israeli military said it had resumed enforcing the Gaza ceasefire agreement after a series of strikes across the Gaza Strip, as seen from Israel, October 29, 2025. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Smoke rises from Gaza after an explosion, on the day the Israeli military said it had resumed enforcing the Gaza ceasefire agreement after a series of strikes across the Gaza Strip, as seen from Israel, October 29, 2025. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
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Israeli Attacks Kill Three Palestinians in Gaza, Testing Fragile Truce

Smoke rises from Gaza after an explosion, on the day the Israeli military said it had resumed enforcing the Gaza ceasefire agreement after a series of strikes across the Gaza Strip, as seen from Israel, October 29, 2025. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
Smoke rises from Gaza after an explosion, on the day the Israeli military said it had resumed enforcing the Gaza ceasefire agreement after a series of strikes across the Gaza Strip, as seen from Israel, October 29, 2025. REUTERS/Ammar Awad

The Israeli military attacked the Gaza Strip for a fourth day on Friday, killing three people, Palestinian health authorities said, in another test of a fragile ceasefire agreement.

Residents reported Israeli shelling and gunfire in northern Gaza on Friday, as Israel continued to bombard areas of the enclave despite saying that it remains committed to a ceasefire brokered by US President Donald Trump.

The Israeli military did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment.

Another Palestinian died of wounds sustained from previous Israeli shelling, the Palestinian WAFA news agency reported.

The US-brokered ceasefire, which left thorny issues like the disarmament of Hamas and a timeline for Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip unresolved, has been tested by periodic outbreaks of violence since it came into place three weeks ago.

Between Tuesday and Wednesday, Israel retaliated for the death of an Israeli soldier with bombardments that Gaza health authorities said killed 104 people.

MORE BODIES HANDED OVER

Gaza's health ministry said the Red Cross had delivered to it 30 bodies of Palestinians killed by Israel during the war, a day after Hamas handed over two bodies of hostages.

Under the ceasefire accord, Hamas released all living hostages held in Gaza in return for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and wartime detainees, while Israel agreed to pull back its troops, halt its offensive and increase aid.

Hamas also agreed to hand over the remains of all 28 dead hostages in exchange for 360 Palestinians killed in the war. After Thursday's release, it had handed over 17 bodies, while 225 Palestinian bodies have so far been returned to Gaza.

Hamas has said that it will take time to locate and retrieve the bodies of all the remaining hostages. Israel has accused Hamas of violating the truce by stalling in the handover.

Two years of conflict in Gaza have killed over 68,000 Palestinians, according to Gazan health authorities and left the enclave in ruins. Israel launched the war after Hamas-led fighters attacked southern Israel in October 2023, killing 1,200 people and bringing 251 hostages back to Gaza.

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Tunisia President Sacks Energy Minister Ahead of Renewable Energy Projects Vote

Tunisian ‌President Kais Saied. (AFP)
Tunisian ‌President Kais Saied. (AFP)
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Tunisia President Sacks Energy Minister Ahead of Renewable Energy Projects Vote

Tunisian ‌President Kais Saied. (AFP)
Tunisian ‌President Kais Saied. (AFP)

Tunisia’s ‌President Kais Saied dismissed Energy Minister Fatma Thabet on Tuesday, amid growing controversy over renewable energy projects set to be voted on in parliament.

Saied said he had appointed Housing and Infrastructure Minister Salah Eddine ‌Zouari to ‌temporarily oversee the ministry. ‌No ⁠detailed explanation was ⁠provided for the decision.

The move comes as Saied's government seeks to pass draft laws on renewable energy, which ⁠will be put to ‌a ‌vote in parliament later on Tuesday.

The ‌projects have a planned ‌capacity of 600 megawatts, with 500 million euros ($585 million) as total investment.

The projects are ‌part of Tunisia’s efforts to expand clean energy ⁠production. ⁠Some lawmakers and political parties oppose the projects, describing them as a form of "energy colonization."

They have criticized the exclusion of the state electricity company (STEG) from the contracts, which they say were awarded exclusively to foreign firms.

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Israeli Strikes on Gaza Kill Five, Including 9-Year-Old Boy, Medics Say

Mourners react during the funeral of Palestinian child Adel Al-Najjar, who was killed today in an Israeli strike, according to medics, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 28, 2026. (Reuters)
Mourners react during the funeral of Palestinian child Adel Al-Najjar, who was killed today in an Israeli strike, according to medics, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 28, 2026. (Reuters)
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Israeli Strikes on Gaza Kill Five, Including 9-Year-Old Boy, Medics Say

Mourners react during the funeral of Palestinian child Adel Al-Najjar, who was killed today in an Israeli strike, according to medics, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 28, 2026. (Reuters)
Mourners react during the funeral of Palestinian child Adel Al-Najjar, who was killed today in an Israeli strike, according to medics, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 28, 2026. (Reuters)

Israeli strikes killed five Palestinians, including a 9-year-old boy, in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, health officials said.

Medics said an Israeli drone killed the child, Adel Al-Najjar, in eastern Khan Younis in the south of the enclave, while an Israeli airstrike targeted a vehicle in Gaza City, killing four people.

The Israeli military did not ‌immediately comment on ‌either incident.

At Nasser Hospital’s morgue, relatives arrived ‌to ⁠bid farewell to Najjar's ⁠small, white-shrouded body.

Women cried next to the body, which lay on a medical stretcher on the floor, and men held a special prayer before carrying him to the cemetery for burial.

The boy was collecting cardboard that the family uses for cooking, relatives said. There has been no electricity in ⁠Gaza since the war began in October 2023, ‌and Palestinians have complained of Israeli ‌restrictions on the entry of cooking gas.

"We don't have gas. ‌We collect cardboard to bake, they want to eat; they ‌want to drink," said one of the boy's relatives, Sabreen Al-Najjar.

Violence in Gaza has persisted despite an October 2025 ceasefire, with Israel conducting almost daily attacks on Palestinians.

At least 800 Palestinians have been ‌killed since the ceasefire took effect, according to local medics, while Israel says gunmen attacks have ⁠killed four ⁠of its soldiers over the same period.

“Isn’t it shameful what is happening to us? Isn’t it shameful that we bury our children every day, right in front of us? Isn’t it shameful? I swear to God, our hearts are breaking for these children,” another relative, Suhaib Al-Najjar, said at the morgue.

Israel and Hamas have blamed each other for ceasefire violations.

More than 72,500 Palestinians have been killed since the Gaza war began in October 2023, according to Gaza health authorities.

Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attacks on Israel killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies.

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Israel Says Has ‘No Territorial Ambitions’ in Lebanon, Despite Evacuations

Smoke rises following an explosion in southern Lebanon, near the Israel-Lebanon border, as seen from northern Israel, April 28, 2026. (Reuters)
Smoke rises following an explosion in southern Lebanon, near the Israel-Lebanon border, as seen from northern Israel, April 28, 2026. (Reuters)
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Israel Says Has ‘No Territorial Ambitions’ in Lebanon, Despite Evacuations

Smoke rises following an explosion in southern Lebanon, near the Israel-Lebanon border, as seen from northern Israel, April 28, 2026. (Reuters)
Smoke rises following an explosion in southern Lebanon, near the Israel-Lebanon border, as seen from northern Israel, April 28, 2026. (Reuters)

Israel on Tuesday said it was not seeking to take territory in Lebanon, as its military issued a wave of new evacuation warnings for towns and villages in the battle-scarred south. 

"Israel has no territorial ambitions in Lebanon. Our presence... serves one purpose: protecting our citizens," Foreign Minister Gideon Saar told a news conference. 

"No country would be willing to live in such a way with a gun pointed to its head," he said as the military pressed its operations in Lebanon against Iran-backed Hezbollah. 

Shortly after a ceasefire with Hezbollah came into effect on April 17, Israel declared a so-called "Yellow Line" -- a strip of Lebanese territory around 10 kilometers (six miles) deep along the border within which Israeli troops are operating. 

"In a reality where Hezbollah and other terror organizations -- including Palestinian terror groups -- are dismantled, Israel will have no need to maintain its presence in these areas," he added. 

Despite the ceasefire, Israel and Hezbollah have both engaged in fighting, trading blame over violations of the fragile truce. 

Tuesday's evacuation warning was aimed at residents in more than a dozen villages and towns, urging them to immediately head northwards. 

"Out of concern for your safety, you are required to evacuate your homes immediately and move... towards the Sidon District," the military's Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee wrote on X. 

Shortly afterwards, Lebanon's state media reported that Israel carried out airstrikes across the south, hitting targets including the named areas. 

It also said at least one Israeli demolition operation was taking place in the south. 

All the areas listed for evacuation appear to be outside or on the border of the "Yellow Line". 

In two incidents earlier on Tuesday, the military said it intercepted "a suspicious aerial target" in an area where troops were operating. 

It also said a soldier had been severely injured and another lightly hurt a day earlier "as a result of an explosive drone impact", branding it a new ceasefire violation by Hezbollah. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Hezbollah's rockets and drones remained a key threat requiring ongoing military action. 

Hezbollah drew Lebanon into the Middle East war on March 2 by firing rockets towards Israel to avenge the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei.