RismadarVoice Reporters
January 31, 2026
Israeli air strikes killed 11 people in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to the territory’s health ministry, including civilians sheltering in a tent in the south of the enclave.
Munir al-Barsh, director general of the Hamas-run health ministry, told newsmen that 11 people were killed, 20 others wounded “as a result of strikes carried out by the occupation targeting civilians in a tent, an apartment.”
He said the injured were taken to hospitals in Gaza City in the north and Khan Yunis in the south, adding that Israel “continues its serious violations of the ceasefire agreement amid a severe shortage of medical supplies, medicines and medical equipment.”
A US-brokered ceasefire that took effect in October entered its second phase in January.
The agreement is expected to include Hamas’s disarmament, a gradual Israeli withdrawal, and the deployment of an international stabilisation force.
Israel and Hamas have repeatedly accused each other of breaching the truce.
Gaza’s Hamas-run government press office said the strike on the tent in the south killed seven members of a single displaced family, including a child and an elderly person.
According to the health ministry, 509 people have been killed since the ceasefire came into force on October 10.
Nearly all of Gaza’s population has been displaced at least once during the war in the densely populated coastal territory, with hundreds of thousands still living in tents or makeshift shelters.
The war began with Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, which killed 1,221 people, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
Israel’s military response has since flattened large parts of Gaza, which had already been weakened by repeated conflicts and an Israeli blockade in place since 2007.
More than 71,769 people have been killed in Gaza during the conflict, according to the health ministry, figures the United Nations considers reliable.
