Published On 4/24/2026
A 10-year-old Palestinian girl was shot by the Israeli army, at dawn on Friday, in the town of Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses reported that she was hit by a bullet in the head while she was inside Khalifa School, which houses displaced people.
The witnesses added that Israeli vehicles stationed north and east of Beit Lahia had fired heavy fire since Thursday evening, coinciding with artillery shelling in the vicinity of the area.
The Directorate of Medical Services in North Gaza said – in a statement – that its crews transferred the girl in serious condition to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, and that she was injured as a result of gunfire targeting residents and displaced people in the Beit Lahia project area in the northern Gaza Strip.
At the beginning of this April, the Israeli occupation army killed a Palestinian girl while she was studying inside a tent in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. The Ministry of Education described the incident as “a heinous and horrific bloody crime, added to the long black Israeli record of brutality.”
This comes as part of the ongoing Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement in force in the Gaza Strip since October 2025, as residents and displaced people near areas under the control of the Israeli army in various parts of the Gaza Strip are exposed to repeated fire from vehicles and snipers, resulting in deaths and injuries on an almost daily basis.
On April 14, the government media office in Gaza said – in a statement – that Israel had committed 2,400 violations of the ceasefire agreement, including killing, arrest, siege, and starvation.
The continued Israeli violations of the agreement also resulted in the death of 972 Palestinians and the injury of 2,235 others, according to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip.
While Israel continues to occupy more than 50% of the Gaza Strip, hundreds of thousands of displaced people live in tents, schools, shelter centers and open areas, after their homes were destroyed as a result of the Israeli war, amid harsh humanitarian and living conditions.
The ceasefire agreement was reached two years after a genocidal war launched by Israel on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, which left more than 72,000 martyrs, more than 172,000 Palestinians wounded, and widespread destruction that affected 90% of the infrastructure.
