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Israeli Ceasefire Violations Kill Three and Wound 10 in Gaza, Including Aunt of Poet Mosab Abu Toha

HeadlineMay 01, 2026
Image Credit: Courtesy of Mosab Abu Toha

Israeli attacks on Gaza killed at least three Palestinians and wounded 10 others on Thursday and Friday in Israel’s latest violations of the ceasefire. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha said he was “heartbroken” after Israel shot his 30-year-old aunt in the chest while she was sitting with her three young children in a school shelter in the Jabaliya refugee camp. Abu Toha says the bullet pierced her chest and exited through her back, devastating her lungs and spleen, and leaving her in critical condition. He writes, “At the moment she was hit, she was holding her one-year-old son. He fell from her lap as she collapsed and was found bleeding from one of his ears.” Mosab Abu Toha and his wife, Maram, have lost over 100 relatives to Israeli attacks since October 2023, including 31 members of his family killed in a single airstrike.

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