At least 26 people died this Saturday, January 31, in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, including seven from a family in Khan Yunis, in the south of the territory, and another 11 at a police station, according to medical and Civil Defense sources.
This is one of the deadliest days in the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas came into force on October 10.
The attacks occurred in both the north and south of the territory, including an Israeli drone attack on a tent where a family lived in Khan Yunis, which killed a father, his three children and three of his grandchildren, according to a source at Nasser Hospital.
In Gaza City, in the north of the Palestinian enclave, an Israeli missile hit the police station in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood this Saturday morning, killing seven people, according to a source at the Shifa Hospital morgue.
The death toll rose to 11 shortly after four more bodies were found in the rubble.
According to the hospital and a statement from the Ministry of the Interior of the authorities controlled by Hamas, the dead included at least three female police officers and four prisoners.
Details about the four deaths added later are still unknown.
Shortly afterthree more inhabitants of the territory were killed in an Israeli attack on a family home in the western area of Gaza Cityclose to a school complex managed by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), indicated a local source in the enclave cited by the EFE agency.
During the night, 12 more inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, including six children from two families, were killed in Israeli attacks, two hospitals in the territory reported.
In addition to the attack in Khan Yunis, Gaza City, a mother and three of her children, along with another family member, were killed in an airstrike on the apartment where they were sheltering, Shifa Hospital reported.
With these deaths, the number of Gazans killed since the truce came into force has risen to more than 520, including more than 100 children, according to data from the enclave’s Ministry of Health.
The first phase of the truce envisaged the exchange of hostages (20 alive and 28 dead and all already repatriated) for Palestinian prisoners, the partial withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and the entry of humanitarian aid into the territory, having resisted, after almost four months, the cross accusations of successive violations of understanding.
The next steps envisage a technocratic transitional government, already constituted, the disarmament of Hamas, the creation of an international military force and the reconstruction of the enclave.
The war in the Gaza Strip was triggered by attacks led by Hamas on October 7, 2023 in southern Israel, in which around 1,200 people died and 251 were taken hostage.
In retaliation, Israel launched a large-scale military operation in the Palestinian enclave, which caused more than 71,000 deaths, according to local authorities, a humanitarian disaster, the destruction of almost all of the territory’s infrastructure and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
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