In the shadow of a ceasefire meant to quiet one of the world's most contested strips of land, an Israeli airstrike near a bakery in Deir Al-Balah claimed the life of a three-year-old boy named Tayyem Hamdan and a man Israel identified as a Hamas militant. The strike on Sunday lays bare the distance between a formal agreement and the lived reality beneath it — where more than 1,300 Palestinians have died since the October 2025 ceasefire took effect. It is a reminder that the architecture of peace and the experience of peace are not always the same structure.
Israeli airstrike kills Palestinian man and 3-year-old in Gaza
A 3-year-old boy and one adult man were killed; several others were wounded in the airstrike near a civilian bakery.