Mourners gather near the bodies of Palestinians Israel killed in a strike on Monday, during their funeral at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Feb. 10, 2026. (Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters)
Gaza's civil defense have reported that Israeli strikes killed at least 12 Palestinians since dawn on Sunday.
Despite a U.S.-brokered truce that entered its second phase last month, Israeli violence has continued against Palestinians in Gaza.
The Gaza civil defense, which operates as a rescue force under local governing authorities, said one strike hit a tent of displaced people in northern Gaza and another targeted an area in the south.
Five people were killed and several injured when an air strike targeted a tent sheltering displaced people in Jabalia in the north, the agency said in a statement.
Five more were killed and several injured in a separate early morning strike in the southern city of Khan Younis, the agency said, adding that one more was killed in Israeli shelling in Gaza City.
It also said Israeli gunfire killed one person in Beit Lahia in north Gaza.
The Al-Shifa and Nasser hospitals confirmed receiving at least seven bodies.
"Israel doesn't understand cease-fires or truces."
"Israel doesn't understand cease-fires or truces," said Osama Abu Askar, who lost his nephew in the Jabalia attack.
He said Israel killed the people while they were sleeping.
Killed while asleep, prayers at the funerals
"We've been living under a truce for months, and they've still targeted us. Israel operates on this principle — saying one thing and doing another," Askar told AFP.
Dozens of relatives and mourners gathered at Nasser Hospital, where the bodies of some of those killed were laid out in white shrouds.
Men and women prayed before the funeral, facing the corpses in the hospital compound.
Under the terms of the cease-fire, which took effect on Oct. 10, 2025, Israeli troops were stipulated to withdraw to behind a so-called "Yellow Line," although they still occupy more than half of the Palestinian territory.
Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem in a statement on Sunday accused the Israeli military of violating the cease-fire.
"Targeting of displaced people in their tents is a serious violation of the ceasefire agreement," Qassem said.
Israel has killed at least 601 people since start of the cease-fire.
Gaza's health ministry, which operates under Hamas authorities, says Israel has killed at least 601 people since the truce began.
Israel says at least four of its soldiers have been killed in the same period.
Media restrictions and threats on medical workers
Israel continues to block the entry of international media organizations and journalists into Gaza, so they rely on local reporters to deliver and verify news and reports.
International medical charity Doctors Without Borders, meanwhile, said it had suspended its "non-critical" work at Nasser Hospital after staff reported seeing gunmen there and weapons being moved.
"We don't know who these armed men are or if they belong to any group," MSF told AFP.
Israel has said it will terminate all MSF activities in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank from March 1 after the charity did not provide names of its Palestinian staff.
MSF says it did not do so because Israel failed to give assurances the staff would be safe.
