At 2:30 AM on Thursday, June 4th, Israeli warplanes struck four residential apartments simultaneously across Gaza City. By the time the smoke cleared, nine Palestinians were dead — among them a father, a mother, and three of their children. Only a nine-year-old girl survived. She was pulled from the rubble of what used to be her home, the last living member of her family.

This is not a ceasefire. This has never been a ceasefire.

The strikes hit the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, the Al-Shati refugee camp, the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood, and the Abu Al-Amin area of Al-Jalaa. Four apartments. Four families. Four scenes of annihilation, all at the same time, while the world was sleeping.

The Attaya family home in Abu Al-Amin was reduced to charred rubble. Rescuers recovered bodies burned beyond recognition. In northwest Gaza City, the Labad family apartment was obliterated — five members of the same family erased from the civil registry: a father, a mother, and their three children. A nine-year-old girl, the sole survivor, was pulled from the wreckage with moderate injuries. She is now an orphan.

The Ghoul family apartment in the Abu Ghuri building in Sheikh Radwan was hit. Two Palestinians killed. The Muhanna family apartment in Al-Shati refugee camp was hit. More wounded, more shattered lives.

Fifteen others were injured. Some critically. Several suffered severe burns. Families were trapped inside burning apartments. Rescue crews couldn't reach them in time.

Walid Shbeir, whose nephew was among the dead, stood over the bodies at Al-Shifa Hospital and said what every Palestinian has been saying for months:

"They say the war has stopped, but the war has not stopped. Every night there is killing, and we have martyrs. Every night, in the morning, in the evening, and at night, this killing is continuous for us."

His nephew is dead. His family is grieving. And somewhere in Washington, someone is calling this a peace process.

Palestinian men standing in a circle praying over shrouded bodies on the ground near damaged buildings after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on June 4, 2026

936 Dead and Counting

Since the so-called ceasefire took effect, Israel has killed at least 936 Palestinians in Gaza. Let that number settle in. Nine hundred and thirty-six people killed during a ceasefire. That's not a ceasefire. That's a killing spree with a PR department.

We've documented this pattern relentlessly because someone has to.

In "900 Dead Since the 'Ceasefire': Israel's Killing Spree and the West's Criminal Silence", we laid bare the numbers the mainstream press buries in paragraph nineteen. Nine hundred people. During a ceasefire. And the world's governments responded with press releases about "concern."

When six-year-old Menna Allah Abu Labda was killed by an Israeli airstrike, we named her. We told you her age. We told you she was a child. Because "collateral damage" is what empires call children they murder.

When Israel bombed a hospital, then bombed the medics who came to help, we documented the war crime. Because that's what it is. Bombing hospitals is a war crime. Bombing the people who rush to save the wounded is a war crime. Doing it repeatedly, with impunity, is the definition of a genocidal regime.

Mourners carry shrouded bodies wrapped in Palestinian flags during a funeral procession in Gaza following Israeli airstrikes

The Ceasefire That Never Was

Salah Akram, our correspondent on the ground in Gaza, has been living this reality every single day. In his dispatch "Gaza Is Shrinking: From the Ground, the Ceasefire Was Never Real", Salah described what the ceasefire actually looks like from inside Gaza: bombing so close you feel it in your chest, humanitarian aid blocked, families displaced again and again into an ever-shrinking patch of land.

He wrote: "The sector is shrinking, my friend, the tents are expanding, and people are moving within a closed circle."

That was last week. Today, four more apartments are gone. Four more families are mourning. A nine-year-old girl is alone.

In "The Streets That Swallow Us: A Day in the Annihilation of Gaza", Salah documented a single day in the life of Gaza under this so-called peace. The hunger. The cold. The healthcare collapse. The Israeli violations that never stopped, not for one day.

Palestinian men standing amid concrete rubble and twisted rebar from a destroyed multi-story residential building after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City

This is not new. It is continuous. It is systematic.

On Nakba Day, thirteen Israeli bombs killed eight Palestinians, and Israel downplayed it as a "successful operation." Eight dead on the day Palestinians commemorate their displacement. The cruelty is the point.

And while the world's attention has been consumed by the US-Iran war and the Lebanon front — as we warned when Israel used that cover to tighten the siege on Gaza and the West Bank — Israel has been steadily expanding its "Yellow Line" buffer zone, squeezing two million Palestinians into an ever-smaller pocket of Gaza. Academics are calling it what it is: preparation for permanent reoccupation.

A Nine-Year-Old Girl Is an Orphan Tonight

We don't have all the names yet. Israel's bombs don't wait for journalists to arrive. The bodies arrive at Al-Shifa burned, broken, and often unidentified. Gaza's Health Ministry does the grim work of counting the dead while Israel's military refuses to comment — the standard protocol for a regime that kills civilians as routine policy.

But here is what we know:

The Labad family — father, mother, and three children — wiped out in northwest Gaza City. A nine-year-old girl survived.

The Attaya family — charred bodies pulled from their home in Abu Al-Amin.

The Ghoul family — two killed in the Abu Ghuri building in Sheikh Radwan.

The Muhanna family — struck in the Al-Shati refugee camp.

The Israeli military has not commented. They never comment when they kill civilians. They only comment when they kill a target, and then they call everyone nearby a "militant" retroactively. We've seen this script before. We've seen it with Hind Rajab, the five-year-old girl trapped in a car with her dead family while Israeli tanks blocked ambulances from reaching her. We saw it with Menna Allah. We've seen it nine hundred and thirty-six times since this "ceasefire" began.

A nine-year-old girl is an orphan tonight. Her parents are dead. Her siblings are dead. Her home is rubble. She survived with moderate injuries, which means she is in a hospital in Gaza — where hospitals are themselves targets, where power fails, where generators break down because Israel won't allow replacement parts through.

The World Yawns

The Israeli military said nothing. The US State Department will express "concern." The UN will issue a statement that no one reads. The European foreign ministers will call for "restraint." And tomorrow, or the next day, or the day after that, Israel will bomb another apartment, kill another family, and the machine will keep grinding.

Because there are no consequences. There have never been consequences. Not for bombing hospitals. Not for killing journalists. Not for starving a population of two million. Not for wiping out entire families in the middle of the night.

936 Palestinians killed since the ceasefire. And counting.

Every name is a sentence that should never have been written. Every family is a wound that will never heal. Every nine-year-old girl pulled from the rubble of her home is an indictment of every government that arms Israel, every media outlet that calls this a ceasefire, every international body that issues statements instead of sanctions.

They say the war has stopped. Tell that to the dead. Tell that to the nine-year-old girl who has no one left.

Gaza City, Palestine — The ceasefire is a lie. The killing continues. And the world looks away.

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This is a developing story. We will update as more victim names become available.