Israel reopens Rafah crossing but continues bombing Palestinians

A local health official said at least 26 people had been killed in the attacks, which the Israeli military said had targeted Hamas commanders. The opening of the border was seen as progress in the cease-fire.

Reporters had been in car on way to new camp, says media group, as two 13-year-old boys killed in separate incidents Hospitals in Gaza say Israeli forces killed at least 11 Palestinians on Wednesday, including two 13-year-old boys and three journalists, in the latest violence to undermine a three-month-old ceasefire. Palestinian health officials said the Israeli airstrike killed three Palestinian journalists who were travelling in a car to film a newly established displacement camp in the Netzarim area of central Gaza. Continue reading...

Actors, doctors and human rights leaders sign letter calling for restoration of medical care to ‘collapsed’ system Dozens of artists, including Cynthia Nixon, Mark Ruffalo and Ilana Glazer, have joined with doctors, human rights leaders and humanitarian organizations to call for the immediate restoration of medical care in Gaza in a letter addressed to the state of Israel and world leaders. “Israel’s systematic attacks on hospitals and unlawful blockade have collapsed Gaza’s healthcare system,” says the letter, which was shared exclusively with the Guardian. “Through its policies and military activities, the government of Israel has deliberately inflicted conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of Palestinians in Gaza and then denied the very help that could save them.” Continue reading...

Attacks bring total number of Palestinians killed by Israel to 425 since October ceasefire took effect Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli attacks in the Palestinian territory on Thursday killed at least 13 people, including five children, despite a ceasefire that has largely halted the fighting. Four people including three children were killed when a drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza, agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal told AFP. Continue reading...

Israeli troops allowed the first Palestinians through the newly reopened Rafah crossing on Monday.

Dozen Palestinians allowed to re-enter but critical patients continue to be prevented from receiving life-saving care.

Israeli strikes destroyed buildings in southern Lebanon in the latest attacks to occur amid a so-called “ceasefire.”

Samia Alatrash recalls life before the war with her sister Samar and her two girls, and the night she lost her family.

Rafah crossing will reportedly operate for six hours a day and allow only 150 patients to exit into Egypt for care.

The pilot comes before Gaza residents begin to pass through the crossing on Monday, Israeli authorities say.

Medical charity has been barred for not providing Israeli authorities with personal details of its staff in enclave.

Israel has killed more than 500 Palestinians since agreeing to end its genocidal war under a US-brokered ‘ceasefire'.

Key Rafah border crossing with Egypt to be reopened after nearly two years for only 'limited movement of people'.

The attack comes amid fears of a return to conflict following clashes between government troops and Tigrayan forces.

Israel's military confirmed the strikes, which come during a ceasefire that Israel and Hamas accuse each other of breaking.

Israel carries out deadly attacks in Gaza a day before the Rafah crossing is due to reopen.

Palestinians walk amid buildings destroyed by Israeli air and ground operations in Gaza City, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi) 2026-01-31T06:39:21Z DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hospitals in Gaza said Israeli strikes killed at least 12 Palestinians Saturday, one of the highest tolls since an October agreement aimed at stopping the fighting. The strikes hit locations in northern and southern Gaza, including an apartment building in Gaza City and a tent in Khan Younis, officials at hospitals that received the bodies said. The casualties included two women and six children from two different families. The strikes came a day before a border crossing is set to open in Gaza’s southernmost city, a reminder that the death toll is still rising even as a ceasefire agreement inches forward. All of the territory’s border crossings have been closed since the start of the war and Palestinians see the Rafah crossing with Egypt as a lifeline for the tens of thousands in need of treatment outside the territory, where the majority of medical infrastructure has been destroyed. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); Shifa Hospital said the Gaza City strike killed a mother, three children and one of their relatives on Saturday morning, while Nasser Hospital said a strike in a tent camp caused a fire to break out, killing seven, including a father, his three children and three grandchildren. Gaza’s Health Ministry has recorded more than 500 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire since the start of the ceasefire on Oct. 10. The ministry, which is part of the Hamas-led government, maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. Israel’s military did not immediately respond to questions about the strikes. Shifa Hospital said the Gaza City strike took killed a mother, three children and one of their relatives, while Nasser Hospital said a strike in a tent camp caused a fire to break out, killing seven, including a father, his three children and three grandchildren. ___ Magdy reported from Cairo. Sam Metz contributed from Jerusalem. SAMY MAGDY Magdy is a Middle East reporter for The Associated Press, based in Cairo. He focuses on conflict, migration and human rights abuses. twitter facebook mailto

Multiple attacks across the besieged enclave a day before Israel is expected to reopen the Rafah border crossing.

Israeli air strikes pound areas in southern Lebanon in violation of the November 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah.

Two people are reported killed in a drone strike at Maghazi camp in central Gaza while three others die in Rafah.

Israel has previously cast doubt on figures from the Hamas-run health ministry, which the UN considers reliable.

Palestinians still waiting for the Red Cross to turn over the bodies either in Khan Younis or Gaza City.

Court gives Israeli government until March to justify ban on foreign media from Gaza.

To find Ran Gvili, Israel desecrated hundreds of Palestinian graves and the world did not care.

Countries slam destruction of UN agency for Palestinian refugees' East Jerusalem headquarters as 'unprecedented act'.

Israel's war has devastated enclave's reproductive health system; advocates call it a genocidal measure.

The UK-founded charity will not adhere to Israel's demand as observers fear data could be used to target aid workers.

Palestinians 'desperate' for Rafah crossing to open as prolonged closures compound widespread suffering, warns the UN.

A Lebanese minister condemns the latest Israeli killing and calls on the international community to 'take action'.

Official's comment on amnesty for Hamas members seen as 'significant step', as focus moves to next stage of ceasefire.

Israelis held captive in Gaza and Palestinians swept into Israel detention centres have been focus of ceasefire talks.

Israel says the remains of the last captive recovered, which could pave the way for the Rafah Crossing to reopen.

Over 2,700 Palestinian families have been wiped out in 27 months by Israel’s genocide.

Lebanese government says it documented 2,036 Israeli breaches of Lebanon's sovereignty in the last three months of 2025.

The Israeli military ⁠says it launched a 'targeted operation' in northern Gaza to find the last captive's body.

Deadly Israeli air strikes target areas across south Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley amid simmering regional tensions.

Israeli army intensifies its deadly West Bank attacks as settlers rampage across Palestinian lands with impunity.

The attack hits civilians gathering firewood near Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, sources say.

Three Palestinian journalists were killed in a targeted Israeli strike in Gaza while working for an aid organisation.

UN says more than 1,800 settler attacks against Palestinians - about five per day - were documented in 2025.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun blasts Israeli 'policy of systematic aggression' that directly targets civilians.

Israeli forces have demolished three homes belonging to Palestinians in the village of Shuqba in the occupied West Bank.

The three journalists worked for a committee supervising Egyptian aid in Gaza and were documenting a newly set-up camp.

Khalid Abu Jarad holds the body of his 3-month-old niece, Shaza Abu Jarad, who, according to the health ministry, died from hypothermia, in Gaza City, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi) 2026-01-20T14:29:29Z DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Palestinian baby died from hypothermia on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, underscoring the grim humanitarian conditions in the territory as world leaders were gathering at a Swiss resort where President Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan is high on the agenda. Shaza Abu Jarad’s family found the 3-month-old on Tuesday morning in their tent in the Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City. “She was freezing, and dead,” the baby’s father, Mohamed Abu Jarad, told The Associated Press by phone after a funeral. “She died from cold.” The man, who worked in Israel before the war, lives with his wife and their seven other children in a makeshift tent after their house was destroyed during the war. The family took the girl to the Al-Ahly hospital where a doctor pronounced her dead from hypothermia, said her uncle, Khalid Abu Jarad. The Health Ministry confirmed that the baby died from hypothermia. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); The family is among hundreds of thousands of people sheltering in tent camps and war-battered buildings in Gaza which experiences cold, wet winters, with temperatures dropping below 10 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit) at night. As Palestinians in the war-ravaged enclave languish in displacement camps, Trump hopes to establish his new Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos . But the initiative, initially conceived to oversee the Gaza ceasefire, faces many questions over its membership and scope. Israel on Tuesday began demolishing the Jerusalem headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, pressing ahead with its crackdown against a body it has long accused of anti-Israel bias. Shaza Abu Jarad was the ninth child to die from severe cold this winter in Gaza, according to the strip’s health ministry, part of the Hamas-run government and staffed by medical professionals. The U.N. and independent experts consider it the most reliable source on war casualties. Israel disputes its figures but has not provided its own. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); More than 100 children who have died since the start of the ceasefire in October — a figure that includes a 27-day-old girl who died from hypothermia over the weekend. The ceasefire paused two years of war between Israel and Hamas militants and allowed a surge in humanitarian aid into Gaza, mainly food. But residents say shortages of blankets and warm clothes remain, and there is little wood for fires. There’s been no central electricity in Gaza since the first few days of the war in 2023, and fuel for generators is scarce. The International Committee of the Red Cross said recent biting cold and rainfall in Gaza were “ultimately a threat to survival.” Trump’s Board of Peace was initially seen as a mechanism focused on ending the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. But recent invitations sent to dozens of world leaders show that the body could have a far broader mandate of other global crises, potentially rivaling the U.N. Security Council. Trump says the body would “embark on a bold new approach to resolving global conflict,” an indication that the body may not confine its work to Gaza. freestar.queue.push(function () { window.fsAdCount = window.fsAdCount + 1 || 0; let customChannel = '/dynamic_' + fsAdCount; let adList = document.querySelectorAll(".fs-feed-ad") let thisAd = adList[fsAdCount]; let randId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2); thisAd.id = randId; let thisPlacement = fsAdCount == 0 ? "apnews_story_feed" : "apnews_story_feed_dynamic"; freestar.newAdSlots({ placementName: thisPlacement, slotId: randId }, customChannel); }); The panel was part of Trump’s 20-point ceasefire plan that stopped the war in Gaza in October. Many countries, including Russia, said they received Trump’s invitation and were studying the proposal. France said it does not plan to join the board “at this stage.” ___ Magdy reported from Cairo and Metz reported from Jerusalem. SAMY MAGDY Magdy is a Middle East reporter for The Associated Press, based in Cairo. He focuses on conflict, migration and human rights abuses. twitter facebook mailto SAM METZ Metz covers Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and points beyond for The Associated Press. mailto

Army deploys armoured vehicles and imposes curfew in the city, shutting down neighbourhoods.

Nearly all of the flimsy tents in displacement camps have been rendered unusable due to the harsh winter conditions.

Gaza City, al-Mawasi and Bureij refugee camp all come under Israeli air attacks and gunfire.

Nothing changes on ground for Palestinians needing ‘food, shelter, safety’, who see Trump’s plan as ‘distant, abstract'.

Rights group says Palestinian children are 'increasingly targets' as Israeli military and settler violence soars.

United Nations peacekeepers say a drone 'dropped a grenade' on its troops as Israel continued attacks on Lebanon.

At least 10 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza after the US announced the start of phase 2.

Tensions are rising as Israel's army carries out near-daily attacks on Lebanon in violation of 2024 Hezbollah ceasefire.

One Palestinian man is shot and wounded, and at least 80 people are detained in mass overnight raids.

Israel limits the ability of teachers from the West Bank to travel to occupied East Jerusalem.

Special rapporteur says Israel's nonresponse to the growing crisis reflects its attitude towards Palestinians.

Palestinian families face "psychological torture" as Israel holds 9,300 prisoners and bans ICRC visits since Oct 2023.

Despite a ceasefire that began on October 10, the Israeli army continues daily attacks on the enclave.

Video shows Israel carrying out back-to-back strikes on the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Hatta.

Israel claims its latest attacks on Lebanon were targeting alleged Hezbollah infrastructure.

Seven others have been wounded in the latest attacks carried out in violation of the October ceasefire.

Israel continues to block vital necessities, such as mobile homes, as Palestinian enclave is hit by harsh weather.

Israeli strikes killed at least 14 Palestinians across Gaza on Thursday, including several children.

At least 425 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks since October ceasefire came into effect, Health Ministry says.

Volker Turk's description of West Bank situation as 'apartheid' marks first time a UN human rights chief has used term.

Doctors Without Borders says Israel continues to block deliveries of tents and temporary housing to war-ravaged enclave.

Foreign Press Association pledges to submit 'robust response' to Supreme Court over Israel's media lockout.

Casualties taken to Istishari Arab Hospital in Ramallah following an Israeli army attack on Birzeit University.

Gaza's unemployment rate has reached 80 percent, among the highest in the world, according to the United Nations.

Israel has, since the fall of al-Assad, extended its occupation of Syrian territory and staged raids and bombardments.

Dozens of families fled a targeted village after an Israeli warning was issued, with drone activity in the area.

Israeli attacks have killed at least 414 Palestinians and injured 1,145 in daily truce violations since October 10.

The Israeli military continues to demolish structures in northern Gaza while also blocking the entry of aid.

Israel claims the drone attack on a car targeted a Hezbollah member.

Qatar, Turkiye and six other countries urge 'unimpeded' humanitarian access to Gaza as Israel cracks down on aid groups.

Israel's continued restrictions on aid deliveries leave Palestinian children particularly vulnerable, aid groups warn.

Ban could cut hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza off from essential care, Doctors Without Borders warns.

Israel currently occupies the Palestinian side of the crossing, choking Gaza of a vital humanitarian entry point.

Heavy rain, thunderstorms and hail is expected across Palestine, according to the Palestinian Meteorological Department.

Displaced people in Gaza warn new restrictions on aid group will 'lead to catastrophe' in devastated enclave.

Thousands of Palestinians were killed or injured at or near food distribution sites in Gaza this year.

Emergency physician James Smith talks about the consequences for Palestinians in Gaza if Israel implements a ban on aid.

Dozens of humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, are banned by Israel.

The group also confirmed the death of former Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar.

Israel has carried out attacks in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Qatar and Yemen, as well as in maritime waters.

Palestinian Journalists Syndicate says Israel using collective punishment to crush reporting of genocidal war in Gaza.

Incursion follows Israeli defence minister's order for military to 'act forcefully' against the Palestinian town.

Palestinian death toll since the start of the truce in Gaza rises to 411 amid near daily Israeli violations.

Police say the attacker, from the occupied West Bank, ran over at least one person before stabbing another victim several miles away.

Attack comes a day after Israeli army reservist in civilian clothes rammed into Palestinian man praying on roadside.

Israel is escalating the confiscation of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.

Eight-month-old among multiple Palestinians wounded in attacks across the occupied West Bank.

Latest attacks come hours after an Israeli strike the night before in ongoing near-daily ceasefire violations.

Israeli forces breach Gaza ceasefire, killing a Palestinian and wounding six, including a child, in multiple attacks.

Israeli forces have injured dozens of people and carried out mass arrests as they carry out raids in Jerusalem.

Commercial premises among buildings facing demolition as military incursions intensify near Qalandiya and Kafr Aqab.

Israel Katz says military units will be established inside the Palestinian enclave, in contravention of truce agreement.

Deadly Israeli air strike is latest in Israel's near-daily violations of 2024 ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah.

Israeli strikes hit Sidon district; 100 Palestinians lose homes as Israel tears down residential building.

Palestinian officials condemn the actions as part of a ‘systematic policy of displacement’.

Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has killed at least 70,669 Palestinians and wounded 171,165 since October 2023.

Six Palestinians have been killed in an attack by Israeli forces on a school sheltering displaced civilians in Gaza.

“People don’t know exactly where [Gaza’s yellow line] exists … when they pass it, they become targets.”

One Palestinian killed by Israeli army in Gaza while two Palestinians, including a child, are shot dead in West Bank.

Syrian state television denounces the Israeli incursion as another violation of the nation's sovereignty.

At least 13 people in Gaza, including two-week-old and one-month-old babies, have died from winter weather.

Students return for in-person classes amid ruins as Palestinians fight to salvage education from systematic decimation.

Talks come as Israel launches near-daily attacks across Lebanon in violation of 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah.

The continued Israeli bombardment has drawn sharp criticism from the UN, which has recorded dozens of civilian deaths.

Israeli authorities are engaged in multiple major efforts to ensure there will be no Palestinian state in the future.

Fighting intensifies as humanitarian crisis deepens with cholera outbreak and mass displacement.

Winter cold 'becomes lethal' as Israel restricts entry of tents, blankets and other shelter supplies to ravaged enclave.

The footage, aired on Israeli TV, shows the captives observing Hanukkah in a Gaza tunnel months before they died.

Raids hit hills and valleys as Israeli military keeps up pressure, it says, to force Hezbollah to disarm.

Analyst Muhammad Shehada explains how Yasser Abu Shabab’s death rattles Israel’s proxy gangs in Gaza.

People in the enclave fear the resumption of the full-scale genocidal war as Israeli ceasefire violations persist.

Strike on Jbaa follows warnings for more attacks as Israel continues daily attacks despite year-old ceasefire.

Yasser Abu Shabab was infamous during Israel's war on Gaza, as his group was accused of stealing desperately needed aid.

Rescue workers say they recovered bodies from a camp for displaced people. The IDF says it "struck a Hamas terrorist".

Israeli drone attack kills two Palestinian children in southern Gaza, medics report, as humanitarian crisis deepens.

Israeli drone attack kills two Palestinian children in southern Gaza, medics report, as humanitarian crisis deepens.

Major Israeli offensive has also destroyed roads, water networks and private property.

Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopened on Monday for limited traffic, a key step in the Israeli-Hamas ceasefire but a mostly symbolic development on the ground as few people will be allowed to travel in either direction and no goods will be going into the war-torn territory. Within the first hour of the opening, no one was actually seen crossing in or out of Gaza. An Egyptian official said 50 Palestinians would cross in each direction on the first day of the crossing’s operation. About...

Hospitals in Gaza said Israeli strikes killed at least 20 Palestinians on Saturday, one of the highest tolls since the October ceasefire aimed at stopping the fighting. Strikes hit locations throughout Gaza, including lethal ones on an apartment building in Gaza City and a tent camp in Khan Younis, said officials at hospitals that received the bodies. The casualties included two women and six children from two different families. Gaza’s Health Ministry has recorded 509 Palestinians killed by...

Israeli forces on Wednesday killed at least 11 Palestinians in Gaza, including two 13-year-old boys, three journalists and a woman, hospitals said, on one of the war-battered enclave’s deadliest days since the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel took effect in October. The United States is trying to push the deal forward and implement its challenging second phase. Among the dead were three Palestinian journalists who were killed while filming near a displacement camp in central Gaza, a camp...