Death toll from Israeli strikes on Gaza rises to 63

Medical sources have told Al Jazeera Arabic that Israeli forces killed at least 63 people, including 24 children, in the ongoing attacks on Gaza.

Here are some of the most recent attacks:

Palestinians again trapped under the rubble as Israel violates ceasefire

Israeli fighter jets have just targeted a residential building in a suburban neighbourhood south of Gaza City. Many Palestinians have been confirmed killed, and dozens were injured, among them women and children.

The scenes here are repeating themselves – the same tragedy as Palestinians are again under the rubble after Israel violated the ceasefire agreement. We can clearly see here Civil Defence teams are struggling to get trapped Palestinians from beneath the rubble.

They are using manually operated tools and their bare hands to get many Palestinians who are still trapped under the rubble.

Death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza rises to 91

Medical sources have told Al Jazeera that the death toll from Israel’s ongoing attacks on Gaza has risen to 91 with women and children again making up the vast majority of those victims..

At least 42 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in central Gaza, 31 were killed in northern Gaza, and 18 were killed in southern Gaza. Of the 42 people killed in central Gaza, 18 were from one family … three generations killed in a single attack on their home – children, their parents and their grandparents.

Here in Gaza City as the attacks started, the explosions echoed throughout the night, shocking entire residential neighbourhoods, lighting up the skies, casting more fear. The hospitals are really struggling. We’ve seen the corridors of a hospital filled with stretchers, with grieving families, those who survived the attacks soaked with blood.

The transition from feeling hopeful that this ceasefire was going to continue and bring more peace of mind has turned into despair. If a ceasefire looks like this, there is a huge question mark over its sustainability and ability to hold.

_{Civil defence workers carry out search and rescue operations in buildings collapsed by Israeli strikes on Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood, violating a ceasefire agreement}


Debate in Israel on escalation vs return to truce in Gaza

There is debate in Israel on whether all of that bombing is, in fact, enough. There are calls to escalate assassinations, to target Hamas where it hurts, to further limit the number of humanitarian aid trucks going into Gaza although, in the past few minutes, we’ve seen reports that maybe the Israeli government will announce a return to the ceasefire in the coming hours.

This is in line with the mentality informing all of this, which is that Israel is judge, jury and executioner.

Israel has granted itself, and has been granted that right by the US, to judge the extent of Hamas’s compliance with the ceasefire and to act accordingly in coordination with the Trump administration.

So all of this is seen as a slight blip in the ceasefire and that things will return to normal.

Normal being, continuation of the genocide in the form of blocking aid, blocking Palestinians from fishing, blocking shelter equipment, blocking clearing equipment, blocking fuel, blocking medical personnel, press, blocking UNWRA, blocking experts for bomb disposal, blocking reconstruction, keep demolishing civilian homes and infrastructure behind the yellow line, keep killing Palestinians out of self-defense while watching them starve and die of infectious diseases.

Israeli attack on house in central Gaza kills 2 Palestinians

A medical source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital tells Al Jazeera Arabic that two Palestinians have been killed and two injured in an Israeli bombing that hit a house in southern Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

Israeli military resumes enforcement of ceasefire agreement after carrying out dozens of strikes in Gaza

The Israeli military has said it is resuming enforcement of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza after having carried out strikes against dozens of targets in response to what it described as a violation of the deal by Hamas.

In a post on X, the Israeli military said it had “resumed enforcement of the agreement” in line with instructions from the country’s leadership. The statement said the military had carried out attacks on “more than 30 terrorists in command positions within terror organisations operating in the Gaza Strip”.

It said the military would “continue to enforce the agreement and respond forcefully to any violation”.

Israel trying to impose ‘facts on the ground’ in Gaza in defiance of US-brokered ceasefire

The ceasefire in Gaza was fragile “from day one” as both Israel and Hamas agreed the deal under significant duress from the US and were hoping to blame the other for breaking the truce, Rob Geist Pinfold, lecturer in international security at King’s College London, tells Al Jazeera.

“So what we’re seeing is this game of chicken where both sides are trying to test each other’s limits, test each other’s boundaries, while also looking for the smoking gun that gives them the excuse to violate the ceasefire,” he said.

“The fact that a soldier was killed in Rafah – we still don’t know by whom, we still don’t know if this was ordered by Hamas or this was somebody else or a Hamas cell operating independently – [allowed] Israel to seize this opportunity to violate the ceasefire because this is what they wanted all along.”

He said that while the US will be trying to rein in Israel in private as Trump wants to claim the success of brokering an enduring ceasefire, Israel is trying to “impose its own facts on the ground” in Gaza.

“Israel has still not withdrawn from Gaza. It controls over 50 percent of the Gaza Strip directly and far more indirectly,” he said.

“What Israel has always been seeking to do is basically transplant its model from Lebanon, where there is supposedly a ceasefire but Israel has the ability to act unilaterally against Hezbollah targets, striking regularly and still occupying parts of southern Lebanon.

“So it’s understandable why to many Palestinians in Gaza this might not look like an actual ceasefire and definitely not a peace plan and more an indefinite, prolonged occupation with no end in sight.”

Can we stop pretending Hamas is in any way equivalent to the IDF. Hamas 'violating' the ceasefire is not digging fast enough, Israel violating the ceasefire is bombing and shooting civilians, restricting aid, keeping Rafah closed, firing on fisherman and so on and so on.

Death toll from Israeli attacks on Gaza rises to at least 100: Civil Defence

Israeli attacks across Gaza in the last 12 hours have killed at least 100 Palestinians, including 35 children, according to the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza.

As well as demanding an immediate and comprehensive ceasefire, a civil defence spokesperson called for the opening of safe humanitarian corridors to allow the entry of fuel, equipment and necessities to enable the organisation to carry out its work.

Regional actors need to push the US to ‘rein in’ Israel in Gaza

Middle East powers such as Turkiye and the Gulf states need to pressure the US to force Israel to return to and abide by the ceasefire before Trump gets distracted by other issues, according to Rob Geist Pinfold, a lecturer in international security at King’s College London.

“This is where regional powers need to say, ‘Hey, this is slipping away whilst you are looking elsewhere. You need to throw your weight behind this, and you need to rein in Israel,'” he told Al Jazeera.

Meanwhile, Israel would like to maintain the current status quo in terms of directly occupying more than 50 percent of Gaza with the rest, a “rump” Gaza state, under Israeli siege.

“This is exactly what Israel wants – for this status quo that is supposed to be temporary to become permanent,” he said. “This is not a way to resolve the conflict. It’s a way to perpetuate the conflict and grievances to make further conflicts inevitable.”

Private Israeli contractors profit from demolition work in ruined Gaza

Private Israeli contractors carrying out demolition work in the ruins of Gaza are “profiting from a crime”, a Palestinian human rights defender says.

Israeli contractors have been getting paid upwards of $1,000 a day for carrying out the demolition work, according to Israeli reports, with some posting their handiwork on social media.

“They are feasting on this crime. They are profiting from a crime, and in legal terms, they’re aiding and abetting a crime,” Tahseen Elayyan of the Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq told Al Jazeera.

On top of the demolition work, some of the contractors have been adding to the rubble in Gaza by taking construction waste and debris left by the Israeli army in Israeli communities next to Gaza and dumping it on top of Gaza’s ruins.

“They have the intent to make Gaza unliveable, and this contributes to the bigger crime [of] genocide,” Elayyan said.

Death toll from latest Israeli attacks on Gaza rises to 104

The Ministry of Health in Gaza reports that Israeli attacks across Gaza since last night have killed at least 104 Palestinians, including 46 children, and wounded at least 253.

Since the ceasefire was agreed on October 10, at least 211 Palestinians have been killed and 597 wounded in Israeli attacks, while 482 bodies have been recovered, the ministry said.

Israel’s war on Gaza has now killed at least 68,643 people and wounded 170,655 since it began in October 2023, according to the ministry’s latest figures.

Israel kills another journalist in Gaza in campaign to ‘suppress’ reporting from Strip

Among the 100 people killed in Gaza in the latest Israeli attacks was a journalist [Mohammed al-Munirawi] and his wife. They were sheltering in a tent [in Nuseirat in central Gaza].

It brings the total number of journalists killed since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza to 256 [according to figures from the Government Media Office in Gaza] in an attempt by the Israeli military to suppress any criticism or any voices that document the atrocities and violations of human rights across the Gaza Strip.

It seems like in every wave of attacks, the Israeli military does not miss an opportunity to kill a Palestinian journalist reporting on the ongoing genocidal attacks across the Strip.

Ben-Gvir slams Netanyahu for failing to return to ‘full-scale war’ in Gaza

Far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has criticised Netanyahu for failing to return to “full-scale war” in Gaza after Israel’s military says it will go back to the ceasefire.

“Once again, Hamas murders one of our soldiers during a ‘ceasefire,’ and once again, the Prime Minister chooses to conclude the incident with a ‘measured response’ and an immediate return to the ceasefire, while continuing to allow in ‘humanitarian’ aid, instead of returning to full-scale war and striving to quickly achieve the primary goal: the destruction of Hamas,” Ben-Gvir wrote in a post on X.

He added that if Netanyahu gives up on the goal of dismantling Hamas, “the government will have no right to exist.”

Israel resumes compliance with ceasefire as it continues threats against Hamas

The Israeli government now says that it has resumed its compliance with the ceasefire. In other words, it has stopped the bombing of Gaza. But there is still talk about what other measures Israel could take, still threats that Israel will exact a price against Hamas if it deems the group’s compliance with the ceasefire unsatisfactory.

Having said that, Israeli sources say that it is believed that Hamas will hand over possibly two bodies of captives later this evening. Hamas had announced that it had retrieved those bodies and was ready to hand them over last night when Israel started bombarding the Gaza Strip, so the handover was suspended.

There’s a lot of electioneering happening right now with Israeli officials boasting about who can be tougher on Hamas ahead of whispers about possibly pushing the Israeli election forward.

In that competition, whoever is tougher on Hamas and the Palestinians will garner more votes.

An election based on who is most willing to kill more Palestinians, sick country.

Death toll likely to ‘increase by the hour’ as wounded die amid lack of medical supplies

The latest Israeli attacks have killed 104 people in Gaza, and now the concern is with the many others with critical injuries who have been transferred as of last night and earlier today to medical facilities.

Many have already bled so much from the time of the bombings, and the fear now is that they’re not going to make it as the hospitals lack major medical supplies to help them survive their injuries.

We expect to see the death toll increase by the hour.

Those air strikes destroyed not just residential homes and buildings but also tents and evacuation centres across the Strip, casting fear, frustration and a state of panic as this ceasefire is not holding as it’s supposed to.

Palestinians suffering from shrapnel wounds, internal bleeding

We checked with the emergency ward at al-Shifa Hospital, and we were told that many of the [patients] are in very critical condition. The bombs and drone missiles fired by the Israeli military are packed with shrapnel – packed with nails and pieces of metal – and when they explode, that flies at very high speed and pierces through bodies.

[Many patients] are bleeding internally; That’s increasing the pressure on medical staff.

And the fear did not end: There are still drones here in the skies of Gaza City. The kamikaze drones are hovering at a very dangerous, low level, causing panic and fear.

Knesset centre report records 279 suicide attempts among Israeli soldiers in 18 months

At least 279 Israeli soldiers have attempted suicide over 18 months during Israel’s war on Gaza, according to a new report.

Israel’s public broadcaster KAN said the report by the Knesset Research and Information Center showed “worrying data regarding suicide attempts among Israeli soldiers” from January 2024 to July 2025, 36 of which resulted in death.

According to the report, 124 Israeli soldiers have died by suicide from 2017 to July 2025 – 68 percent of them serving compulsory military service, 21 percent of them reservists and 11 percent on permanent duty.

The report indicated a significant increase in suicide cases among reservists since 2023, linking this to an increase in the number of active-duty soldiers since the outbreak of the Gaza war.

“The suicide epidemic, which is expected to increase with the end of the war, requires establishing real support systems for soldiers, working to end wars and achieving real peace,” said Ofer Cassif, a left-wing member of the Knesset.

“The government that sends its soldiers to war and leaves them to face the consequences alone is working against them,” Cassif added.

Netanyahu’s tough response in Gaza ‘a reaction to domestic criticism he is under US control’

Israel’s recent wave of attacks on Gaza reflected an attempt by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take control of the narrative in the face of domestic criticism that he was under American control, says an Israeli political analyst.

Akiva Eldar told Al Jazeera that Netanyahu was already eyeing an election that could take place earlier than he wanted, in March or April.

He said the Israeli leader was trying to simultaneously preserve his strong relations with Washington, which has brokered the ceasefire agreement, while signalling strength to his critics at home.

“What he wants is to control the narrative, but at the same time, part of this narrative is his very good, excellent relationship with the Trump administration,” he said.

“So he will do everything he can in order to avoid any kind of confrontation. But at the same time, he needs to prove [himself] to all those columnists who are accusing him of giving up Israeli authority, Israeli independence, Israeli control on what is happening [in] Gaza.”

Israel bans ICRC visits to detained Palestinian ‘combatants’

Israel has banned the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting thousands of Palestinian prisoners detained under a law targeting “unlawful combatants”, the country’s defence minister said.

“The opinions presented to me leave no doubt that Red Cross visits to terrorists in prisons would seriously harm the state’s security. The safety of the state and our citizens comes first,” Israel Katz said, according to a statement from his office.

The order prohibits the ICRC from visiting several thousand detainees named in a list attached to it.

In practice, the order will make law of the status quo that has prevailed since the war in Gaza started. The ICRC says it has not been allowed to visit detainees in jail since then, save for pre-release interviews conducted under Gaza ceasefire and prisoner exchange deals.

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), which filed a petition to grant the ICRC access to Israeli prisons, told the AFP news agency that some of the combatants are held in military detention centres, and others in regular Israeli jails.

It said that before the ceasefire deal that began on October 10, the Israel Prison Service “was holding 2,673 prisoners categorised as unlawful combatants”, but added that hundreds were released under the deal in exchange for captives held in the Gaza Strip.

Gaza’s Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is still held by Israel, no sign of release

During Israel’s war on Gaza, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, was warned by Israeli soldiers for months in 2024 to take his family and leave his duties.

But Abu Safiya refused to leave his patients behind, as his colleagues and family said in a documentary by Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines.

Then in December as Israeli forces surrounded the hospital, an Israeli officer called Abu Safiya and promised to relocate him and his staff to another hospital.

But the promise was a lie. Instead, the paediatrician and neonatologist was abducted by Israeli forces.

Ten months later, Abu Safiya is still in detention as Israel has refused to include him in prisoner exchanges. His lawyer said he’s been subjected to torture and inhumane treatment, including long periods in solitary confinement.

Fear and loss ‘cannot become the new normal’ under Gaza ceasefire, Save the Children says

Save the Children has said reports of high casualties among children from Israel’s renewed attacks across Gaza are “excruciating” and called for the ceasefire to be respected and upheld.

“After some weeks of cautious optimism and hopes of rebuilding Gaza, children and families are once again reliving scenes of fear and loss,” Ahmad Alhendawi, Save the Children’s regional director for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe, said in a statement.

“This cannot become the new normal under a ceasefire. A lasting ceasefire must mean safety, relief and recovery for children, not continued suffering. It must be fully respected and upheld.

“We are pleading: stop this now. Protect the ceasefire, protect children, and give Gaza’s families a step towards the genuine peace they have been waiting for.”

‘We need a chance for peace, not excuses for new strikes,’ senior EU figure says

The European Union has called on “all parties” to respect the Gaza ceasefire, but a senior EU official went further in slamming Israel’s air strikes on the Palestinian territory.

“We need a chance for peace, not excuses for new strikes,” European Commission Vice President Teresa Ribera said in a social media post.

Her criticism of Israel was not echoed by the EU’s executive arm.

“We reiterate our call to all parties to continue to respect the ceasefire,” commission spokesman Anouar El Anouni said, without mentioning Israel’s air strikes this week that Gaza’s Health Ministry said killed more than 100 people.

“We urge all parties to fully commit to implementing all phases of the plan to end the conflict in Gaza and to refrain from any action that could jeopardise the agreement,” El Anouni added.

“There is no military solution to this conflict,” he said.

Hamas calls on ceasefire mediators to pressure Israel to halt its attacks

Hamas has called on the mediators of the ceasefire agreement to pressure Israel to stop its attacks and abide by the deal, while also accusing the US in being complicit in helping Israel “impose new realities by force” in Gaza.

“The treacherous escalation against our people in Gaza reveals a clear Israeli intention to undermine the ceasefire agreement and impose new realities by force, under the cover of American complicity that grants Netanyahu’s fascist government political cover to continue its crimes,” the Palestinian group said in a statement.

“The biased positions of the American administration in favour of the occupation constitute actual partnership in the bloodshed of our children and women, and direct encouragement of the continuation of the aggression.”

It added: “The movement also calls upon the mediators and guarantors to assume their full responsibilities regarding this escalating aggression, and to immediately pressure the occupying government to halt its massacres and fully adhere to the terms of the agreement.”

Israeli forces arrest dozens in raid on Dheisheh refugee camp in West Bank

Al Jazeera Arabic reports that Israeli forces have raided the Dheisheh camp in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, arresting about 50 Palestinians, many of whom were recently released from Israeli custody.

The Committee of Families of Political Prisoners in the West Bank told Al Jazeera that Israel has escalated the arrests of political prisoners in recent months across the territory – particularly in Jenin, Tubas, Tulkarem and Nablus – targeting students, activists and former prisoners.

Israel Breaks Ceasefire to Attack Gaza, Killing 104 People, Including 46 Children

Israel launched major airstrikes on Gaza, killing at least 104 people, including 46 children, in the deadliest attacks since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire was announced. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered "powerful strikes" on Gaza Tuesday after Israeli officials accused Hamas of killing an Israeli soldier in Rafah — which Hamas has denied. Netanyahu is trying "everything possible to resume the genocide in Gaza," says Muhammad Shehada, a writer and analyst from Gaza. "The only condition is that he needs to maintain the facade of the ceasefire."

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