Israeli forces shoot at bus, nine people killed: Gaza civil defense

Livemint Updated 18 Oct 2025, 16:15 IST Israeli forces killed nine people in an attack on a bus on Friday, Gaza’s Civil Defense Agency said on Saturday. However, the Israeli army said they fired on a vehicle that crossed the so-called “yellow line”. “Civil defense teams were able to recover nine bodies after the Israeli occupation targeted a bus carrying displaced people east of the Zeitun neighborhood yesterday,” Mahmud Bassal, a spokesman for the agency, which operates under Hamas authority, told AFP on Saturday.