Smoke rises after an air strike hit a building in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, Gaza, on Saturday. Despite the tenuous ceasefire agreed between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas, Israeli warplanes targeted the Sheikh Radwan police station west of Gaza City, killing 10 officers and detainees, medics and police said. Another air strike hit an apartment in Gaza City killing three children and two women, according to officials at Shifa ⁠hospital in the city. Video footage from Gaza City showed charred, blackened and destroyed walls at ‍an apartment in a multi-storey building, and debris scattered inside it and outside on the street. Palestinian militants have killed four Israeli soldiers since the truce, according ‌to Israeli authorities.

Source: The Irish Times February 01, 2026 00:37 UTC