A Palestinian man was killed on Friday after becoming a target of an Israeli drone strike west of the southern Gaza city of Rafah, amid continued violations of the ceasefire agreement, medical sources and witnesses told Anadolu.
The body of 42-year-old Raafat Breika was brought to a hospital after the strike claimed his life.
Witnesses said a quadcopter drone dropped a bomb on Breika, who they said was a shepherd, in the Al-Shakoush area west of Rafah.
Meanwhile, Israeli artillery heavily shelled eastern areas of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to witnesses.
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, at least 883 people have been killed and 2,648 others injured in Israeli attacks since a ceasefire was announced in October 2025.
The agreement was meant to halt Israel’s two-year genocidal war on Gaza that has killed more than 72,000 people, mostly women and children, and injured over 172,000 people since October 2023. The war has also caused massive destruction affecting 90 percent of civilian infrastructure in the enclave.
