Smoke and flames rise from the Gath shelter, which houses displaced Palestinians, after an Israeli airstrike west of Khan Younis, in the south of the Gaza Strip, on January 31, 2026. Photo Bashar Taleb / AFP
Israeli airstrikes killed eleven people Saturday in the Gaza Strip, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The strikes came amid a fragile truce in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the Islamist movement, which accuse each other of violating the cease-fire.
Mounir Albourche, director general of the Health Ministry, told AFP that 11 people were killed and 20 wounded “as a result of strikes by the occupation [Israel, editor’s note] targeting civilians in a tent and an apartment.” He added that Israel “continues its grave violations of the ceasefire agreement amid a severe shortage of medical supplies, medicines and medical equipment.”
The wounded were taken to hospitals in Gaza City in the north of the territory and in Khan Younis in the south. In a separate statement, the Gaza government’s press office said the strike on a tent sheltering displaced people killed seven members of the same family, including a child and an elderly person.
Nearly all residents of the Gaza Strip have been displaced at least once during more than two years of war, and hundreds of thousands still live in tents or makeshift shelters.
According to the government, 509 people have been killed by Israeli gunfire or airstrikes since the ceasefire took effect on Oct. 10 under pressure from the United States.
The war in Gaza was triggered by the unprecedented Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel, which killed 1,221 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures. At least 1,769 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s retaliatory military campaign in the territory, according to the Health Ministry.
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