Israeli airstrikes kill at least 20 people in Gaza
Posted on: Feb 04, 2026 16:58 IST | Posted by: Cbc
Israeli tankful shelling and airstrikes killed 20 Palestinians including quatern children in Gaza on midweek, wellness officials said, the modish violence to undermine a truce in the enclave.
Among the dead was a medic who rushed to help victims of a strike in the southern city of Khan Younis and was then killed by a second attack on the same location, health officials said.
Other strikes hit Gaza City in the north, where health officials said a five-month-old boy was killed. The attacks come three days after Israel reopened Gaza's main border crossing with Egypt, a major step in the U.S.-backed truce.
The Israeli military said it had launched the strikes in response to militants opening fire against Israeli troops operating near its armistice line with Hamas. It said an Israeli soldier was severely injured by the militant fire, which it described as a violation of the ceasefire agreement.
Since the start of the ceasefire, Israeli fire has killed at least 530 people, most of them civilians, according to Gaza health officials. Palestinian militants have killed four Israeli soldiers in the same period, according to Israeli authorities.
Israel's two-year offensive on the Gaza Strip killed more than 71,000 Palestinians, according to Gazan health authorities, displaced most of its population and left much of the strip in ruins.
The attack led by Hamas in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that triggered the war killed around 1,200 people in Israel, according to Israeli tallies. Several Canadian citizens were killed in those attacks.
Palestinian patients preparing to cross through the newly opened Rafah border crossing to Egypt were told that Israel had postponed the passage of patients through the border. A few hours later, the patients were told to prepare again to cross the border.
The Israeli agency that controls access to Gaza, COGAT, said in a statement that the Rafah crossing remained open, but it had not received the necessary co-ordination details from the World Health Organization (WHO) to facilitate the crossing.
The WHO did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Reopening the crossing was one of the requirements under the October ceasefire set out in the first phase of U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to stop fighting between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants.
Sixteen patients from Gaza and 40 of their escorts crossed into Egypt on Tuesday, Gazan medics told Reuters.
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