Israel strike kills one in Gaza amid rejected Trump plan
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- Mohanad Saada, a municipal maintenance team member returning from repairing a water well, was killed and five others wounded when an Israeli airstrike hit a tuk-tuk near the Western Roundabout in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza on Wednesday.
- Mahmoud Basal, Gaza civil defence spokesperson, said Israeli airstrikes "had almost completely ceased for over a week" before Wednesday's resumed aerial bombardment, with the injured taken to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
- The Israeli military said the Beit Lahiya operation targeted a Hamas commander "actively planning attacks against Israeli forces," a framing at odds with Basal's account that the victim was a maintenance worker.
- Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza reported two additional Wednesday attacks: a quadcopter drone strike in Khan Younis that critically wounded a 13-year-old boy, and artillery shelling near the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
- Benjamin Netanyahu formally rejected on Sunday US President Donald Trump's "historic" 15-point Board of Peace plan to end the war, which called for "the complete disarmament of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza" — a plan Hamas had endorsed.
- Israeli attacks have killed more than 1,250 Palestinians in Gaza since the October US-backed ceasefire took effect, bringing the overall toll to at least 73,388 Palestinians killed and 174,259 wounded since October 7, 2023.
Why it matters: Wednesday's resumed strikes came just three days after Netanyahu rejected the same Trump-endorsed plan that Hamas accepted, signaling that the diplomatic track will not translate into an operational pause on the ground. Civilian infrastructure workers are now caught in the middle, with the cumulative toll since October 2023 reaching 73,388 killed and 174,259 wounded even under a formally recognized ceasefire framework.
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