Gaza officials say over 100 killed in Israeli strikes

By AFP and ToI Staff 29 October 2025, 11:24 am

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Palestinians recover a body from the rubble of a house destroyed in an overnight Israeli strike in Gaza City on October 29, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)

Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency and hospitals says that a series of Israeli strikes overnight and this morning killed more than 100 people across the Palestinian territory.

“At least 101 fatalities were brought to hospitals, including 35 children and a number of women and elderly, as a result of Israeli airstrikes in less than 12 hours,” says Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the agency, which operates as a rescue force under Hamas authority. The toll is confirmed by an AFP tally of reports from medical officials at five Gaza hospitals that received the dead and wounded.

Israel says it hit dozens of terror targets and terror operatives in response to ceasefire violations by Hamas. It says the ceasefire is now back in effect.