Israeli fire kills Palestinian man near Gaza City

Israeli forces have killed a man northeast of Gaza City, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Mohammad Khaled Abdel Moneim was killed this morning by a gunshot to the head fired by Israeli troops in the az-Zarqa area of ​​the Tuffah neighbourhood, medical sources told the agency.

Elsewhere, a young girl was wounded by Israeli army fire in the al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Wafa reported.

At least three Palestinians were killed on Sunday in an Israeli drone attack despite the US-brokered truce.

More than 480 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire began in October 2025. Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed more than 71,000 Palestinians since October 2023.

Israeli attacks on Gaza ‘erased generations’

Israeli bombardment of Gaza has, in some cases, killed multiple generations of the same family.

Over the last two years, more than 2,700 entire bloodlines have been wiped out and 6,000 families left with just a single survivor, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reported.

The al-Najjar family, which lived in southern Khan Younis, is one such case in which an attack killed Malik al-Najjar, a teenager, his father, and 22 members of their extended family.

“The first day I went to the site, I imagined them in front of me,” Nesrine, Malik’s mother, said. “The first thing I saw was my son’s clothes scattered, blown away by the force of the explosion,” she said.

“I couldn’t stay – all the beautiful memories vanished in seconds.”

Elderly woman succumbs to cold in Gaza, highlighting dire humanitarian situation

Zainab Mohammad Musbeh, 63, died of hypothermia in southern Gaza. Musbeh lived in a tent in al-Mawasi near Khan Younis, Wafa news agency reported.

The overwhelming majority of Gaza’s population remains internally displaced because of Israel’s ongoing attacks and occupation, and a harsh winter has exacerbated the Palestinian territory’s humanitarian crisis.

Israel continues to impede the entry of crucial aid to Gaza, including shelter materials, food, water, and medicine.

About 3,000 Palestinians have been affected by adverse weather conditions in recent weeks, which damaged the temporary structures they live in, the UN agency OCHA reported.

“Partners highlighted persistent challenges in accessing essential shelter‑sealing materials, including nails, timber, and other basic items required to repair window frames, reinforce doors, and enhance protection from the elements,” OCHA said.

_{Children inside a flooded tent in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza}

Number of people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza rises to 71,660

The Health Ministry in Gaza has just released its latest daily update on the number of casualties due to Israeli attacks.

In a statement, it said the bodies of three people, including one who was recently recovered, had arrived in hospitals across the besieged territory over the latest 24-hour reporting period. Another 20 people were wounded.

The figures bring the number of people killed in Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023, to at least 71,660 with 171,419 others wounded,

The ministry said that since the October ceasefire went into effect, Israeli attacks have now killed 486 people and wounded 1,341 as Israel continues to violate the agreement.

Israel continues to block access to Al Jazeera’s online platforms

Israel will continue to block Al Jazeera websites and other online platforms, expanding a nearly two-year ban on the news outlet’s television broadcasts.

“Thanks to the amended law led by my colleagues MK Ariel Kallner and Tzvika Fogel, Al Jazeera has been almost completely blocked,” said Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi on X. “We will continue to remove Israel’s enemies from here.”

The blocking follows a December amendment to Israel’s 2024 media law that allows the communications minister to shut down foreign news outlets deemed a security threat.

Israel also extended its ban on Al Jazeera Media Network’s operations and the closure of its offices in the country by another 90 days.

Investigation reveals Israeli campaign to flatten Gaza city of Beit Hanoon

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The Israeli army is working to flatten the remains of homes in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanoon despite the ceasefire that began in October.

Al Jazeera’s digital investigations team Sanad analysed satellite images taken from October 8, two days before the ceasefire began, and January 8 and found evidence of the operation, which some Palestinians fear may be a step towards the establishment of Israeli settlements in Gaza, which are illegal under international law.

The Israeli army used bulldozers to clear about 408,000sq metres (4.39 million square feet) of land, including the remains of at least 329 homes and agricultural sites.

Firewood costs soar in Gaza as winter cold bites

Firewood has become increasingly expensive in Gaza as Palestinians endure frigid temperatures and need it to cook meals in the absence of cooking oil and electricity.

One kg of firewood costs about $2, said Wael Assar, who volunteers at a soup kitchen.

“We now search markets and other areas to find a few kilos of firewood to continue cooking lunch or any other meal that requires a large quantity of firewood,” Assar said. “We need between 300 and 500 kilos daily.”


_{man chops firewood on Salah al-Din Street near the Bureij camp in central Gaza}

It's about $0.17 per kg of firewood here.

Egypt presses for international military force in Gaza

Egypt has called for the Gaza ceasefire to move immediately into its second phase. Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said he wants to see the next stage of Trump’s plan implemented with the international stabilisation force deployed.

The comments came after Abdelatty met US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau in Cairo, where the two discussed war-battered Gaza.

In a statement after the meeting, Egypt said the withdrawal of the Israeli military from Gaza and the reopening of the Rafah crossing in both directions were discussed.

Egypt, Qatar and Turkiye have played key roles in mediating and brokering the phased truce between Hamas and Israel that took effect on October 10.

Israel attacks Gaza on 92 ceasefire days, killing more than 100 Palestinian children

Israel has attacked Gaza on 92 of the 108 days of the ceasefire that took effect on October 10. These attacks have killed more than 100 Palestinian children, including at least 60 boys and 40 girls, according to UNICEF.

‘Shelling and gunfire continue around the clock’

Just metres from yellow-painted concrete blocks marking the Israeli army’s latest redeployment line in eastern Gaza City, Zaid Mohammed, a displaced Palestinian father of four, shelters with his family in a small tent.

The so-called yellow line is the demarcation line where the Israeli army withdrew to under the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire that came into effect in October. Israeli military maps indicate the line extends 1.5km to 6.5km (0.9 to 4 miles) inside Gaza from its eastern boundary with Israel and covers roughly 58 percent of the enclave.

The line divides Gaza into two zones: an eastern area under Israeli military control and a western area where Palestinians face fewer movement restrictions but are under constant threat of air raids and forced displacement.

Zaid’s tent stands in the ruins of destroyed homes and a flattened urban area with debris scattered as far as the eye can see. A United Nations official last week said it would take more than seven years to clear more than 60 million tonnes of rubble in Gaza.

Israel’s genocidal war has destroyed or damaged more than 80 percent of the buildings in the enclave of more than 2.3 million people. Now most of them, including Zaid, have been forced to take shelter in tents or bombed-out houses.

“Shelling and gunfire continue around the clock,” Zaid told Al Jazeera, pointing towards the eastern horizon, where clouds of dust occasionally rise from nearby explosions.

_{A yellow block demarcating the yellow line, which has separated the Gaza Strip’s Israeli-held and Palestinian zones since the October ceasefire, is visible in Khan Younis}

‘Even in death, the apartheid regime is what reigns’

The fact that equipment is being allowed into Gaza only to look for Israeli bodies, but not Palestinian ones, “shows that even in death, Palestinians are not considered equal”, according to Daniel Levy, president of the US/Middle East Project.

His comments to Al Jazeera were in reference to the plans made for the retrieval of the remains of police officer Ran Gvili, which Israel says it must receive before it opens the Rafah crossing.

“Even in death, the apartheid regime is what reigns here,” said Levy, adding that the bigger aim is to make both Gaza and the occupied West Bank places “where there is not a future for Palestinians”.

The big question for Egypt and the other mediating parties in the region, therefore, is to see how they can manage Trump and Israel, Levy argued.

“China has shown us that if you’re big enough, you can stare Trump down. Europe is perhaps showing us that if you come together enough, then you can pose a challenge to Trump, the bully. I think the question for the region is, can you cooperate and come together and use your leverage enough that Israel and Trump cannot get away with their schemes for the region?”

The biggest challenge for the region will be deterring and containing Israel militarily, the Israeli-British analyst added.

‘Disaster capitalism’: Israel-US plans for Gaza have nothing to do with helping Palestinians

Antony Loewenstein, a freelance investigative journalist, author and filmmaker, says Trump and his administration have no real aim of helping the besieged Palestinians in war-devastated Gaza.

“The Board of Peace – it’s almost impossible to say that term without laughing in a sort of grimly humorous way – is overseen by Trump. Now Trump has a deep loathing of Palestinians. He has for years. He’s deeply racist towards them,” Loewenstein told Al Jazeera.

He compared the situation to the US “client state” of Haiti, where low-cost housing and industrial parks were built to serve the American market with cheaply produced goods.

Loewenstein described the plan for Gaza as “disaster capitalism – people making money from misery essentially”.

“I see very much what Israel is wanting to do there: building highrise skyscrapers for tourism on the bones of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in a pretty grimly similar way.”

Israel’s conditional plan to open Rafah crossing isn’t progress

Israel’s plan to reopen the Rafah crossing to Egypt is still mired in deep uncertainties, says Daniel Levy, president of the US/Middle East Project.

“Can we really … consider it so significant that more than 100 days after the crossing was supposed to be opened, it might be opened? It will still only be for foot traffic, [and] it seems it will be under Israeli control. Will Palestinians be allowed back?” Levy asked.

“That’s the kind of nickel-and-diming that Israel always undertakes, and that we should be very clear.”

Levy continued: “If that’s what progress looks like, are we really going to see Israel withdraw from the 58 percent [of Gaza] it controls? Are we really going to see the rebuilding of Palestinian life, Palestinian self-governance, the ending of daily killings?”

The reopening of the Rafah crossing could be in one direction only, Levy warned.

If that were to happen, it would not be surprising because the “Israeli plan is still to displace, ethnically cleanse Palestinians”, the analyst said.

The committee of Palestinian technocrats that is to handle day-to-day governance of Gaza, meanwhile, is called the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza – with the word “Palestinian” deliberately omitted, he explained.

“Anything that has Palestinian in the name is antithetical to Israel because that’s part of the eradication of Palestinians.”

Israel bombs Lebanon’s largest city south of Litani River

Israel’s army says on X that it has carried out raids near Tyre that targeted a member of Hezbollah.

Lebanon’s National News Agency confirmed a strike on a car on the outskirts of the city.

No mention was made of any casualties, but we will keep you updated as information comes in.

Israeli strike on southern Lebanon deadly

Lebanon’s Health Ministry reports that one person has been killed and two wounded in an Israeli bombing of a car on the outskirts of the city of Tyre.

Israel said upon announcing the strike that it targeted a member of Hezbollah. The group has yet to comment.

UNIFIL says helped establish 130 positions in south Lebanon

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) says it has assisted the Lebanese army in deploying some 130 permanent positions in south Lebanon since November 2024, when a ceasefire came into effect between Israel and Hezbollah, and “referred to them more than 400 weapons caches and infrastructure that we found”.

“Our efforts together support [UN Security Council] Resolution 1701 and contribute to long-term stability,” it said in a post on Telegram.

Resolution 1701, adopted in 2006, calls for a cessation of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel and the establishment of a weapons-free zone between the so-called “blue line” and Lebanon’s Litani River.

The announcement by UNFIL comes hours after Lebanon filed a complaint with the United Nations about repeated Israeli violations of the November 2024 ceasefire.

Hezbollah chief warns US, Israeli action against Iran could ‘ignite whole region’

The leader of Lebanon’s Iran-aligned Hezbollah movement, Naim Qassem, says that his group is concerned with confronting Washington’s threat against Iran, particularly any threat against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Tensions between Iran and the United States have grown following a crackdown on protests across Iran in the past few weeks, which US President Donald Trump said could lead to a US response.

“We are concerned with what is happening and targeted by potential aggression. We are determined to defend ourselves. We will choose in due course how to act, whether to intervene or not … but we are not neutral,” Qassem said in a televised address.

The Hezbollah leader said mediators had told the group the US and Israel were considering hitting it in case there was an attack on Iran, saying that a war on Iran could ignite the entire region this time.

Israeli forces beat 5 Palestinians during Nablus camp raid

Israeli troops assaulted five Palestinians during an attack on the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus. The incursion took place in the early hours of Monday, the Wafa news agency reported.

Medics with the Palestine Red Crescent Society said they treated five people for injuries sustained during the army assault, who were later taken to hospital.

Israeli soldiers raid occupied West Bank town

Schools in the town of Kafr Aqab in the occupied West Bank have been evacuated as Israeli forces raided the area.

Israeli snipers were stationed on the rooftops of buildings on Airport Street as soldiers assaulted journalists and prevented them from doing their jobs, Al Jazeera staff on the ground reported.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military said it had received reports of gunfire on one of its vehicles near Nablus. There were no casualties.

_{Schools are hastily evacuated as Israeli forces, including snipers on rooftops, raid the town}


Israeli forces demolish water wells, livestock pens south of Hebron

Footage circulating online has documented the Israeli army’s demolition of homes and agricultural facilities in the village of Khirbet al-Daraj in the Yatta desert south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

Videos show military bulldozers levelling Palestinian property.

The attacks are “part of a continuous demolition policy targeting citizens’ homes and facilities, increasing the residents’ suffering and threatening their living stability”, the al-Baydar human rights group said.

Final shepherd community forcibly displaced from southern Jordan Valley in West Bank

The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem says that after months of violence against Palestinian communities in Ras Ein al-Auja, the final remaining people have now left.

“This shepherding community, which was the largest and last surviving in the southern Jordan Valley, consisted of approximately 800 people, including about 400 minors,” the group said on X.

“This area has now been completely ‘cleansed’ of Palestinian presence,” it added. B’Tselem said 45 Palestinian communities had been forcibly displaced in the West Bank since October 2023. They consisted of about 3,500 people.

It said the expulsion of Palestinians is part of an ethnic cleansing policy by Israel against Palestinians in the West Bank.

Israel’s demolition of UNWRA’s headquarters

Israel recently demolished UNRWA’s headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem as some critics suggested it is trying to strip Palestinians of their protected refugee status.

Former staff members said several structures that were destroyed were used to store aid for Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. The UN said the action violates international law.

Israeli forces demolished UNRWA’s headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem. The UN says the action violates international law and follows a broader crackdown on the agency, which millions of Palestinian refugees depend on for aid. pic.twitter.com/9XrYMOac22

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West Bank’s Palestinians ‘trapped between settlements, walls and gates’

This current raid in the Jerusalem area enforces Israeli control. At the same time, it lays the ground for a planned new illegal settlement in the Qalandiya area.

On the other hand, there’s an assault on the refugee camp itself, and that is part of the pattern of taking one refugee camp at a time, banning UNWRA [the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees], and then targeting the community centres where social support exists. And the raid happened during the schoolday, so it added to the traumatic effect on the children attending.

The endgame is not a secret. The endgame is annexation, it’s takeover, and it is, in the words of several key ministers, to encourage Palestinians to leave the occupied West Bank, not to stay. By taking over land, demolishing homes, emptying the Jordan Valley, if you will, which is the breadbasket of the occupied West Bank, conditions of life become very difficult.

You don’t have the mass destruction of Gaza, but you certainly have an economy that is on its knees. You have 69 years of lost development, according to the United Nations, and you have a population with nowhere to go, trapped between settlements, walls, and gates.

The Israeli government, this coalition, is not interested in solutions that would maintain Palestinians on their land. The more Palestinians leave, the better.

Men and boys in occupied West Bank face higher threats of detention, excessive force: UN

Men and boys in the occupied West Bank face distinct threats and vulnerabilities, says a new report by the United Nations Human Rights Office.

“Data shows men and boys in the West Bank face heightened risk of detention, excessive use of force – including lethal force, and systematic humiliation,” the report said, adding that “urgent protection responses” that account for age, gender and diversity are necessary.

“Israeli forces treat Palestinian male identity as an inherent security threat, even children.”

According to the UN body, Palestinian men and boys make up 99 percent of all Palestinian detainees, the majority of whom are held in administrative detention and have not been charged with any crime. Additionally, men and boys make up 97 percent of those killed or injured through excessive use of force by Israeli forces.

While in detention, this group faces torture, sexual violence and other physical and psychosocial harm, including death in custody.

“Across all risks, Israeli forces have exploited gender norms to inflict dignity-related harm and abuse intended to humiliate men and boys, erode social fabric, and induce displacement of communities,” the report said.

Intensified militarised operations, escalating settler violence, forced displacement and economic collapse are all pressures driving these harms, said the UN office.

Remains of last captive in Gaza found by Israel’s military

Israel’s army says it has recovered the last captive held in Gaza after an operation to find his body.

“Following the completion of the identification process by the National Center of Forensic Medicine in cooperation with the Israel Police and the Military Rabbinate, [military] representatives informed the family of the late Ran Gvili that his body has been returned for burial,” army spokesman Avichay Adraee said.

“Thus, all the hostages held in the Gaza Strip have been repatriated,” he added.

Hamas: Identification of last Israeli captive confirms our commitment to ceasefire

The Palestinian group has commented on the discovery of Givili’s remains and the ceasefire.

“We will continue to adhere to all aspects of the agreement, including facilitating the work of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza and ensuring its success,” a statement from Hamas said.

“We call on the mediators and the United States to compel the [Israeli] occupation to cease its violations of the agreement and implement its required obligations”.

The Palestinian group says that in return for providing all necessary information to mediators and to Israel for the successful return of all the captives held in Gaza, Israel must keep up its end of the bargain, “especially the opening of the Rafah crossing in both directions without restrictions, the entry of the Gaza Strip’s needs in the required quantities, the lifting of the ban on any of them, the complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, and facilitating the work of the National Committee for the Administration of the Gaza Strip”.

PIJ says it gave location of last Israeli captive’s remains to mediators weeks ago

Abu Hamza, the spokesperson of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), says the group handed the coordinates for the location of the body of Ran Gvili to the mediators three weeks ago based on new information.

“But the enemy deliberately delayed the coordination and search operations,” Abu Hamza alleged.


‘Issue of captives in Gaza is done and cannot be reopened’

With this last captive’s remains found, there are no excuses left for Israel to open the Rafah crossing to let in aid. It will be more difficult for Netanyahu to place more obstacles.

The captive, Ran Gvili, was an Israeli policeman. He was thought to have perished during the attack or shortly after on October 7, 2023. According to the information we’re gathering, it’s believed that he was buried very early on in the war.

The Israeli military carried out this operation after it received the intelligence. It excavated a Muslim cemetery, basically, and took over 200 bodies. There was a team of medical professionals to ascertain the identity of those remains.

We know from past experience, the bodies [of the Palestinians] that had been collected will be returned without identification. This has added misery to the families who had buried their loved ones, who had known where they could have visited their deceased loved ones.

But now this file, this issue of captives in Gaza, has been closed, and it cannot be reopened. It’s done.

And the conversation with Israel has to move on to a different level, to a different issue, giving some hope for the Palestinians in Gaza, so that they can actually talk about the number of [aid] trucks allowed in, the number of medical evacuations and people needing to come home.

Palestinians still denied heavy equipment to retrieve loved ones buried under rubble

Over and over again, the Palestinian Civil Defence teams in Gaza have been calling on the international community, saying that they need heavy machinery and equipment to retrieve the bodies of Palestinians, or whatever is left of those people, from the rubble.

All of these appeals have been denied or rejected. Nothing that they have asked for entered. We only saw heavy machinery when the Red Cross entered to search for the bodies of Israeli captives.

So we’ve seen an unbalanced approach to the Israeli captives and the Palestinians still trapped underneath the rubble.

_{Palestinian Civil Defence members recover bodies from the grounds of Salah al-Din Mosque in Gaza City}

Anger as MSF agrees to Israel’s ‘unreasonable demands’: What to know

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The medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, says it will provide Israeli authorities with the personal details of some of its Palestinian and international staff working in Gaza and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory.

But critics warn Israel, whose army has killed more than 1,700 health workers – including 15 employees of the charity – during the genocide in Gaza, could use the information to target more humanitarian workers in the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

MSF said it faced an “impossible choice” to either provide the information or be forced by Israel to suspend its operations.