Palestinians mourn over the useless who had been killed in an Israeli navy strike, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza Metropolis, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026.
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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at the very least 19 Palestinians, most of them girls and kids, by noon Wednesday, in response to hospital officers. Israel pledged to proceed strikes, saying that it was responding to a militant assault on Israeli troopers that severely wounded one.
Among the many Palestinians killed had been 5 youngsters, together with a 5-month-old and a child simply 10 days outdated; seven girls; and a paramedic, mentioned hospital officers. They’re the newest Palestinians in Gaza to die since a ceasefire deal, which has been punctuated by lethal Israeli strikes, got here into impact on Oct. 10, 2025. Greater than 530 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli in that point, in response to Gaza’s well being ministry.
The escalating Palestinian demise toll has rocked the U.S.-backed truce and brought on Palestinians within the strip to say it doesn’t really feel just like the struggle has ended.
“The genocidal war against our people in the Gaza Strip continues,” mentioned Dr. Mohamed Abu Selmiya, director of Gaza Metropolis’s Shifa Hospital, in a Fb publish. “Where is the ceasefire? Where are the mediators?”
An Israeli navy official, talking on the situation of anonymity consistent with navy coverage, instructed The Related Press that Israel would proceed hanging the strip. For the reason that ceasefire took maintain, Israel’s navy has defended lethal strikes by saying it’s responding to Hamas violations or militant assaults on its troopers. The navy says 4 troopers have been killed for the reason that ceasefire took maintain.
Mediators have condemned the assaults and Hamas has known as them violations of the deal.
Early Wednesday, Israeli troops fired on a constructing within the Tuffah neighborhood in north Gaza, killing at the very least 11 individuals, most from the identical household, mentioned Shifa Hospital, which obtained the our bodies. The useless included two mother and father, their 10-day-old woman, her 5-month-old cousin and their grandmother.
Israel’s navy mentioned its plane and armored models had returned fireplace after militants began capturing at troops, badly wounding a reservist soldier who was evacuated to a hospital. Israel known as the militant assault a violation of the deal.
Palestinian Raed al-Khabba carries his 3-month-old daughter Mira al-Khabbaz, who was killed in an Israeli navy strike, at Shifa Hospital in Gaza Metropolis, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026.
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After the Tuffah strike, Israeli fireplace continued throughout the strip, mentioned hospital officers. An Israeli strike on a household’s tent within the southern metropolis of Khan Younis killed three individuals together with a 12-year-old boy, mentioned Nasser hospital, which obtained the our bodies. Tank shelling in Gaza Metropolis’s japanese neighborhood of Zaytoun killed one other three Palestinians, in response to Shifa Hospital, together with a husband and his spouse.
A strike on a tent within the Muwasi space of Khan Younis killed at the very least two individuals and wounded 5 others, in response to a subject hospital run by the Palestinian Pink Crescent within the space. The useless included Hussein Hassan Hussein al-Semieri, a paramedic for the Palestinian Pink Crescent who was on obligation on the time, mentioned the hospital.
Over 71,800 Palestinians have been killed for the reason that begin of the struggle, in response to the Gaza well being ministry, which doesn’t say what number of had been fighters or civilians. The ministry, which is a part of the Hamas-led authorities, maintains detailed casualty data which are seen as usually dependable by U.N. companies and impartial specialists.
