Israeli airstrikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 24 Palestinians, including children, on 22 November 2025, according to an Al Jazeera report based on Gaza authorities and eyewitness accounts.
The strikes hit several locations in a single day. Witnesses said the first attack struck a car in northern Gaza City, followed by strikes in central Deir el-Balah and the Nuseirat refugee camp. The Gaza Government Media Office said the attacks wounded 87 people and described them as further violations of the US-brokered ceasefire that had been in place for six weeks.
The deadliest single strike reported in the packet hit a vehicle in Gaza City’s Remal neighbourhood and killed at least 11 people, while another attack in Deir el-Balah killed at least three people, including a woman. A strike on Nuseirat hit a residential building. The source material also says children were among the dead, but it does not assign exact ages or names.
The Israeli government said the strikes came after a Hamas fighter attacked Israeli soldiers in Israeli-held territory. In response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel had killed five senior Hamas fighters. Hamas did not immediately comment on those claims, but it accused Israel of violating the truce “under fabricated pretexts” and called on the United States, Egypt and Qatar to step in.
The Al Jazeera report said the Gaza Government Media Office counted 497 ceasefire violations since the truce took effect on 10 October, with 342 civilians killed in those incidents. That number is the Palestinian authority’s own accounting and should be read as such, but it is a useful marker of how contested and unstable the ceasefire had become by late November.
The broader context matters because the report also described renewed violence in the occupied West Bank, where settlers and soldiers were said to have wounded Palestinians on the same day. Against that background, Saturday’s airstrikes looked less like an isolated incident than another break in an already brittle arrangement.
For civilians in Gaza, the immediate effect was grimly familiar: sudden explosions, injured relatives, shattered homes and yet another test of whether the ceasefire could hold. The report quotes residents describing smoke, debris and a sense that nowhere was safe. Even where the ceasefire technically remained in force, the violence clearly did not stop.
What makes this episode especially significant is that it shows how quickly both sides can return to lethal escalation even after a formal truce. The packet does not establish whether the strike sites were military targets, and NeoTechNews is not going beyond the verified facts supplied in the report. But it does make one thing plain: the ceasefire was already under severe strain, and this wave of attacks deepened that pressure dramatically.
The casualty figures, the multiple locations and the competing political narratives make the incident a measure of the ceasefire’s fragility. By the end of the day, what remained was not confidence in the agreement, but more bodies, more accusations and a renewed warning that the truce could collapse under the weight of repeated violations.
