Hamas authorities say nine killed after IDF opened fire on ‘suspicious’ bus yesterday

By AFP 18 October 2025, 1:26 pm

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Palestinians watch Hamas members search for bodies of hostages in an area in Hamad City, Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, October 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)

Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency says that Israeli forces killed nine people in an attack on a bus yesterday, while the military stated it had fired at a “suspicious” vehicle that crossed the Yellow Line — to which the military withdrew under the terms of the current ceasefire.

“Civil defense crews were able to recover nine bodies following the Israeli occupation’s targeting of a bus carrying displaced persons east of the Zeitun neighborhood yesterday,” Mahmud Bassal, a spokesman for the agency, which operates under Hamas authority, tells AFP.

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.