Israeli forces shot and killed a young Palestinian man in southern Gaza’s Rafah area, according to reports on April 19, 2026. Medical sources cited by the Palestinian news agency Wafa said the victim, identified as Yusuf Hasan, was shot from an Israeli military vehicle northwest of Rafah. He was taken to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, where doctors pronounced him dead.

Earlier, a child was injured by Israeli gunfire in Rafah’s Mawasi area. In a separate incident, Ahmed Hani Obeid, a 25-year-old who had been wounded in an Israeli airstrike in northern Gaza nearly a year ago, died while under treatment. In occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli soldiers reportedly beat a Palestinian near the Qalandiya checkpoint, and the Palestinian Red Crescent said the injured person was taken to a hospital in Ramallah.

Additional clashes were reported near the Dhahiriya (Meitar) checkpoint in the southern West Bank, where a Palestinian worker was shot, and in the Sa’ir area northeast of Hebron, where four Palestinians were injured by pepper spray used by Israeli forces.