A Palestinian girl looks out from a war-damaged building in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, Jan. 6, 2026. (Credit: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters)
Gaza's civil defense agency said Israeli attacks in the Palestinian territory on Thursday killed at least 13 people, including five children, despite the cease-fire.
Four people, including three children, were killed when a drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza, agency spokesman Mahmoud Bassal told AFP.
In the north of the Gaza Strip, an 11-year-old girl was killed near the Jabalia refugee camp and a strike on a school killed one person, while a drone near Khan Yunis in the south killed a man, the agency added.
Two more Gazans, including a child, were killed in other attacks, reported the agency.
Later on Thursday evening, four more people were killed in an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in an eastern area of Gaza City, Bassal said, adding that rescue work to search for several people who were missing had begun.
"The death toll has risen to 13 as a result of Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since this morning in a clear violation of the cease-fire agreement," Bassal said.
In a statement Friday morning, the Israeli military claimed it "struck Hamas terrorists and terror infrastructure in the southern and northern Gaza Strip" in response to an alleged "failed projectile" launch.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told AFP that the strikes in Gaza on Thursday "confirm the Israeli occupation's renunciation of its commitment to the cease-fire."
Israeli forces have killed at least 425 Palestinians in Gaza since the cease-fire took effect on Oct. 10, 2025, according to Gaza's health ministry.
At least 21 people were killed on Nov. 22 in Israeli strikes, making it one of the deadliest days in Gaza since the cease-fire came into effect.
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