Israeli forces kill 12 Palestinians including 6 children across Gaza, attacks reported in Rafah

At least 12 Palestinians, half of them children, have been killed in the Gaza Strip since dawn, a day before the Rafah crossing is due to reopen.

An Israeli air strike on Saturday on a tent sheltering displaced people, in the al-Mawasi area to the northwest of Khan Younis city, killed at least seven Palestinians, including three children, medical sources told Al Jazeera.

Their bodies were taken to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.

In Gaza City, emergency services reported that at least five Palestinians, including three children, were killed in an Israeli air strike on an apartment building in the Remal neighbourhood to the west of the city.

Gaza death toll rises

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has released its latest daily statistical report on casualties resulting from Israel’s attacks on the enclave.

The ministry said that 17 people were killed and 49 others were wounded over the past 48 hours across Gaza. This figure includes 12 people who were killed since dawn today, it said.

Since the October 10 ceasefire, the ministry said 509 people have been killed and 1,405 injured, while 715 bodies have been recovered during the same period. The ministry said that since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on October 7, 2023, the cumulative death toll in Gaza has reached 71,769, with 171,483 people injured.

‘Dangerous escalation’: Hamas raises alarm over Israeli attack on displaced people in southern Gaza

The Palestinian group says this morning’s Israeli attack on a tent sheltering displaced people in the al-Mawasi area near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis is “a dangerous escalation and a deliberate undermining of the ceasefire agreement”.

“The ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip by the [Israeli] occupation […] and the rise in the number of martyrs in various areas of the Gaza Strip in recent hours to 12, including 6 children, represent a brutal crime and a renewed and blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement,” the group said in a statement.

The incident reveals Israel’s “manipulation” of the ceasefire four months after it first came into effect, Hamas said. 


_{Smoke and fire rises from the Gath shelter, housing displaced Palestinians, after an Israeli air strike in the west of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip}

Gaza death toll rises to 19 after Israel bombs police headquarters in Gaza City

The number of people killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn has risen to 19, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.

A source in Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic that at least seven people were killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted a police headquarters in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Earlier, five people were killed in central Gaza and seven others in the al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza.

‘Genocide is still active’: Israeli attacks cause panic among many in Gaza

In central Gaza, public facility is being threatened by the Israeli military. It is located in the middle of what has been a market area for the past two years, and which is quite busy at this time of day. It’s causing mayhem, fear and panic among displaced Palestinians, as well as the residents of Deir el-Balah city.

Over the past several hours, the Israeli military also carried out several attacks across the Gaza Strip, including Jabalia and Gaza City. In one, a residential flat was targeted at about 4am [02:00 GMT) in the morning, in which a woman and her children were all killed while sleeping. Further south, a tent was targeted by a drone strike, killing a man, his children and his grandchildren.

It’s hard to find good news from the Gaza Strip, but if there is a tiny sliver of hope, it is with the Rafah crossing due to open tomorrow under phase two of the ceasefire agreement. Still, the current plan focuses on pedestrian movement and that does not translate automatically into trucks, fuel and medical supplies entering freely.

Let’s keep in mind that the Israeli military made it bluntly clear that any progress to later phases of the ceasefire is conditional. The genocide is still active, due to Israel’s restrictions on people and supplies coming to the Gaza Strip.

Gaza death toll since dawn rises again

At least 25 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces outside their deployment areas assigned by the October 10 ceasefire agreement, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.

The death toll includes 18 people killed in Gaza City, they said.

_{Boys fly a kite against the backdrop of smoke rising after an Israeli air attack in the west of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, January 31}

Border crossings must open as Gaza is at a ‘dangerous stage’: Palestinian NGO Network chief

Amjad Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGO Network in Gaza, says that the ceasefire has not stopped the “crimes” of “genocide”.

Daily Israeli bombardment is continuing to displace people, while Israel is preventing the entry of basic materials, shelter supplies and medicines, Shawa told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

“We are going through a very dangerous stage,” he said. “We need to open the crossings and bring in aid to reduce [people’s] suffering.”

Nearly half of kidney patients dead as closure of Rafah crossing blocks treatment

Dr Muhammad Abu Salmiya, director of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, has told Qatar’s state news agency, QNA, that nearly 50 percent of dialysis patients in Gaza died while awaiting treatment abroad or the arrival of essential medical supplies during the two years of war, while enduring the absence of more than 70 percent of required medications.

He noted that the complex operates only 34 dialysis machines serving about 750 kidney failure patients, an insufficient capacity that worsened after Israeli attacks destroyed hospitals providing specialised renal services, including the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza.

Abu Salmiya warned that continued delays in reopening the Rafah crossing, or severe restrictions on patient travel, would further deepen the crisis and pose grave risks to patients requiring transplants or specialised care unavailable in Gaza.

He called for facilitating patient travel and expanding medical evacuation. The prolonged closure of the Rafah land crossing has severely affected Gaza’s population, with Israeli authorities preventing the entry of humanitarian and medical aid.

According to the Ministry of Health, the closure has led to the deaths of more than 1,000 patients and wounded individuals awaiting treatment abroad, while nearly 20,000 others remain in urgent need of medical evacuation.

Medical supplies running out in Gaza, health official warns

Munir al-Bursh, the director-general of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, has called for the immediate opening of border crossings.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, he also called for the entry of medical supplies and the facilitation of evacuations for wounded Palestinians to receive treatment outside the Gaza Strip.

Al-Bursh warned the health situation in Gaza is extremely dire, noting that medical supplies are rapidly running out.

Only limited medical cases will be allowed to leave Gaza through Rafah crossing

The Rafah crossing is expected to be reopened tomorrow – but only for people wanting to leave Gaza. Israel says it will not allow any goods to enter the besieged enclave.

COGAT, the Israeli military body responsible for coordinating aid to Gaza, said a “limited movement of people only” would be permitted through the crossing starting on Sunday.

The crossing will be overseen by multiple parties, including Egypt, the Palestinian Authority and a European Union mission, but Israel retains control over who is allowed to enter or exit.

 
Still no clarity on Rafah crossing ‘criteria’

Amjad Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGO Network in Gaza, said it remains to be seen how many people, and under what conditions, will be able to use the Rafah crossing that is expected to open tomorrow.

“We have no clarification about the numbers or criteria,” Shawa told Al Jazeera. “We hope that in the coming days there will be clarity about the numbers and about who will be allowed to travel.”

Shawa stressed that there are more than 20,000 wounded people in Gaza who urgently need medical evacuation, including hundreds requiring “life-saving surgeries or medical intervention”.

“The high priority is for these people. We also hope that once they’ve recovered [from being treated abroad], they will be let back into the Gaza Strip.”

People in Gaza don’t understand what prompted escalation of Israeli attacks

There is a state of panic, a state of fear in the Gaza Strip. People don’t understand what is happening, why there is an escalation by the Israeli military.

There is no explanation for what is happening other than what people have been talking about. The Israeli military is controlling everything and wants to paint the features of the second phase of the ceasefire, that this is the daily routine that people are going to live with.

This comes despite all the talk about the Rafah crossing [reopening], the optimism that was on the rise. But it was quite cautious optimism, because people understood that the Israeli military is in control and dictates the daily life for many Palestinians across the Gaza Strip.


_{Rescuers carry the body of a victim amid the debris of Sheikh Radwan police station in Gaza City following an Israeli air strike}

Israel killed mostly children in today’s attacks on Gaza: Civil Defence spokesman

Mahmoud Basal, the spokesman of the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza, has told Al Jazeera that most of those killed in Israeli attacks today are children.

He said Israeli forces used missiles, which have caused widespread destruction and large fires in targeted areas. Basal added that seven people have so far been recovered from the police headquarters bombed by Israeli forces in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Rescue efforts are continuing at the site, he said.

Gaza City resident recounts deadly Israeli attack that killed children

Mohammed al-Helou, a Gaza City resident, says Israel gave no prior warning before bombing a residential apartment overnight in his city.

“Surveillance drones and combat choppers were in the area and flying at a dangerously low level. At 4:00 am [02:00 GMT], this residential flat was hit while a family and children were still inside,” he said.

“No prior warning was given. There is nothing children could ever do to deserve being killed.”

Israeli forces shoot, kill at least one Palestinian in northern Gaza

At least one person has been killed and several wounded in Israeli gunfire outside Israeli forces’ deployment areas in northern Gaza’s Jabalia. That’s according to a source in the enclave’s ambulance and emergency services speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

The killing brings the total number of people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn to 29, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.

Family’s home shelled with two rockets in Gaza City

Israel has shelled the home of the al-Rizq family with two rockets in Nassr neighbourhood in Gaza City. The information on casualties were not immediately available.

#شاهد| لحظة قصف الاحتلال لمنزل آل رزق بصاروخين في حي النصر بمدينة غزة. pic.twitter.com/WFPE0CGAi4

— وكالة شهاب للأنباء (@ShehabAgency) January 31, 2026

Israeli attacks on Gaza continue, number of people killed rises to 31

The number of people killed in Israeli attacks so far today has now risen to at least 31, according to our team on the ground.

Israel claims to have targeted Hamas, PIJ in attacks that killed at least six children

The Israeli military says it has carried out air attacks across the Gaza Strip, claiming the attacks were in response to what it described as a violation of a ceasefire agreement.

In a statement, the Israeli military said its forces, along with the domestic intelligence agency, targeted individuals it described as commanders and fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

The military claimed that eight people it identified as fighters were seen emerging from what it described as underground infrastructure in eastern Rafah, and said it later carried out strikes across the Gaza Strip.

It said the attacks killed four people it identified as commanders, as well as others it described as fighters. These claims could not be independently verified.

The Israeli military also said it struck what it described as a weapons storage facility, a weapons manufacturing site, and two launch sites in central Gaza. It did not provide evidence to support the claims.

As we have reported earlier, the latest wave of Israeli attacks killed 31 people since dawn, including at least six children.


_{Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on tents in Khan Younis}

Hamas condemns Israel’s claims Gaza bombings are ‘response’

Israel’s claims that recent bombings in Gaza are a “response” to Hamas’s violations of the ceasefire agreement “are nothing but a blatant and pathetic attempt to justify the horrific massacres against civilians”, the Palestinian group has said.

“These baseless and flimsy claims confirm the [Israeli] occupation’s contempt for the mediators, the guarantour states, and all parties involved in what is called the ‘Peace Council’,” spokesperson Hazem Qassem said in a statement, referring to the committee of global leaders handpicked by Trump to oversee the US president’s 20-point plan to end Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.

Rescue workers pull bodies out of rubble of Sheikh Radwan police station

Rescue workers are seen pulling bodies out of the rubble of Sheikh Radwan police station following Israel’s attacks. At least 31 people have been killed in attacks across Gaza since dawn.

لحظة انتشال الشهداء من تحت ركام مركز شرطة الشيخ رضوان عقب قصف نفذته طائرات الاحتلال شمالي مدينة #غزة#الجزيرة #فيديو pic.twitter.com/YQUh1taTXF

— الجزيرة فلسطين (@AJA_Palestine) January 31, 2026

Hospital worker describes ‘devastating’ scenes after strikes

A medical official at Nasser Hospital said the scenes inside the facility are “devastating” following Israeli air strikes on Khan Younis.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Mohammed Saqer said the hospital has received about 30 wounded people, in addition to seven bodies, most of them children. He said the hospital’s ICU is full, with large numbers of children currently on ventilators.

Saqer warned that a severe shortage of medical supplies is making it increasingly difficult for staff to provide appropriate healthcare, as the hospital struggles to cope with the scale of casualties.

Israeli attack on Sheikh Radwan police station kills five officers

Gaza’s Interior Ministry has said five police officers and personnel were killed in the Israeli attack we reported earlier today, which targeted the Sheikh Radwan police station.

According to a source in Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, at least seven people were killed in the bombing.

_{Palestinian children stand at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, in the central Gaza Strip}

Tank shelling reported in Khan Younis

Israel attacking with ‘complete impunity’

Israeli political analyst Akiva Eldar says Israel has attacked Gaza with “complete impunity” despite the ceasefire, stressing the need for a “reliable mechanism” to uphold the agreement.

“I don’t believe that the ceasefire can really put an end to the bloodshed,” Eldar told Al Jazeera. “There are elements within the Israeli cabinet who have an interest in this escalation.

“There should be a kind of reliable mechanism – the Americans, the UN – some kind of responsible adult” to help “avoid this kind of escalation”, he added.

CAIR denounces Israeli attacks, calls ceasefire a ‘myth’

The US-based civil rights organisation Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned the latest Israeli attacks, calling the ongoing yet fragile ceasefire a “myth”.

“This massacre of Palestinian women and children exposes the cruel myth of a so-called ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza,” CAIR said in a statement.

“A ceasefire that allows the slaughter of hundreds of civilians, many of them children, is no ceasefire at all. It is a lie used to mask ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing.”

CAIR said the “world must stop accepting Israel’s empty words while Palestinian families are buried under rubble”.

The civil rights group also reiterated its demand that the US and other governments stop supplying the weapons and military assistance contributing to civilian deaths.

Qatar denounces Israel’s latest ceasefire violations

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry has condemned Israel for its “repeated” ceasefire violations, saying they threaten global efforts to restore stability in Gaza.

In its statement, the ministry urged Israel to fully respect the terms of the US-backed peace plan so it can proceed successfully in its second phase.

The ministry called on “all parties to exercise maximum restraint and refrain from any steps that would undermine” Gaza’s stability and future recovery efforts.

Netanyahu’s Gaza vision built on displacement and fragmentation

Analyst Walid Habbas says Netanyahu’s government has a long-term vision for Gaza built on displacement and fragmentation of the territory.

Habbas, of the Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies (Madar), told Al Jazeera the Israeli government’s approach towards Gaza rests on displacing the population or dividing the Strip into two areas: one under Israeli control and the other living amid chaos and devastation under Hamas rule, in an attempt to push residents to turn against the group.

He said this concept explains the current scale of escalation and casualties and outlines the future relationship Israel seeks to impose on Gaza.

On the second phase of the current agreement, Habbas argued that Israel acknowledges the difficulty of disarming Hamas and is using disarmament as a pretext to entrench its military freedom of action inside the Strip to pursue political goals, including reshaping Palestinian governance and managing regional mediators.

After deadly Israeli attacks, Hamas official discusses ceasefire with mediators

Khalil al-Hayya, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, has denounced Israel’s “almost daily” violations of the truce deal in his discussions with mediating nations.

Al-Hayya held talks with mediators and unnamed “international parties” after Israel killed more than 30 Palestinians in multiple air raids in southern and central Gaza over the past day.

He condemned Israel’s “crimes and massacres” in Gaza, adding the ongoing deadly attacks are being conducted under “false pretexts and lies”.

Hamas’s commitment to the teetering truce requires compelling Israel to meet its obligations under the agreement, he said.


_{Palestinians search for bodies and survivors in the rubble of a police station after it was hit by an Israeli strike on Gaza City on January 31}

Turkiye demands Israel comply with Gaza truce after deadly attacks

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has “strongly” condemned Israel’s latest attacks on the Strip and repeated ceasefire violations, stressing the ongoing killing and restrictions threaten to derail the deal.

A statement on X said: “These attacks – conducted at a time when the peace process in Gaza has entered a new phase – threaten international efforts aimed at establishing calm, and stability and once again demonstrate that Israel does not seek peace in the region.”

The ministry reiterated “the need to ensure that Israel complies with all provisions of the Peace Plan adopted by a UN Security Council resolution”.

The statement comes after a series of Israeli air raids on Gaza killed more than 30 people across the enclave, marking one of the bloodiest days for Palestinians there since the fragile “ceasefire” entered into force on October 10, 2025.


_{Relatives mourn bodies at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Saturday after a deadly Israeli air raid}

Israeli drone attacks southern Lebanese town

An Israeli drone has targeted two bulldozers in the town of Qanairit in southern Lebanon with five missiles, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reports.

The bulldozers were clearing rubble from a residential complex that had been targeted by Israeli warplanes on January 21.


One killed, children injured in Israeli attack on Lebanese town of Aaba

One person has been killed and three others wounded in an air strike by an Israeli drone in the town of Aaba in southern Lebanon, according to the Ministry of Health.

Two guided missiles targeted a car on the road in the town, killing a member of the al-Amis family and injuring a 16-year-old boy, a nine-year-old boy named Ali, as well as a 4-year-old girl named Mila, the official National News Agency reported.

The air raid also caused extensive damage to neighbouring houses and to a vehicle parked on the side of the road. It was the second attack in southern Lebanon by Israel today.

Israeli army claims it struck machinery of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

A military statement claims it hit heavy machinery belonging to Hezbollah used to restore its infrastructure in southern Lebanon. The vehicles were struck in the village of Mazraat Aboudiyeh, south of Sidon, in the morning, according to the statement.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported earlier that an Israeli drone targeted two bulldozers in the town of Qanairit in Sidon with five missiles.

The bulldozers were clearing rubble from a residential complex that had been targeted by Israeli warplanes on January 21, it said, without reporting any casualties.