Updates: Israeli attacks across Gaza kill 23 Palestinians since dawn

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• Three Palestinians, including an 11-year-old girl, have been killed in the latest Israeli attacks on Gaza, bringing the death toll since dawn today to 23 as Israel continues to violate an October “ceasefire”.
• Hamas said Israel’s renewed attacks aim to disrupt attempts to implement the second phase of the US-brokered agreement.
• Gaza’s Government Media Office said Israel violated the “ceasefire” agreement 1,520 times since it came into effect on October 10 last year.
• Israeli rights organisation B’Tselem has released a report detailing the inhumane treatment endured by more than 9,000 Palestinians currently held in Israeli prisons.
• The Palestinian Ministry of Health has said that the bodies of 54 Palestinians and 66 boxes containing human remains arrived at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after being released by Israeli authorities.
• Six British pro-Palestinian activists have been acquitted of aggravated burglary charges related to a 2024 raid on ⁠a factory operated by Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit.

After nearly two years of closure, Gaza’s Rafah crossing has reopened under tight Israeli controls.

How is the crossing operating in practice? And what does this partial opening mean for the devastated state of Gaza’s health system, and for wounded patients and their families, and the fragile “ceasefire”?

Watch the episode of The Take below:

The Israeli military has raided Bayt Ur at-Tahta in the central West Bank after reports that an Israeli civilian was lightly injured by glass fragments as stone throwers targeted Israeli vehicles on Route 443.

In a statement, the army said it had cordoned off the town as it searched for those responsible.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in 2024 that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and should come to an end “as rapidly as possible”.

As the prospect of a conflict between the US and Iran looms, analysts within Israel have questioned the country’s capacity to determine the outcome of a confrontation in a region that, just months ago, it had regarded itself as on the brink of dominating.

“The [Israeli] opposition are accusing Netanyahu of giving in to Trump and ending the war on Gaza too soon,” said Israeli political analyst Ori Goldberg.

“[Israel is] being hounded out of Lebanon, [its] freedom to operate within Syria has been halted. All that’s left to [Israel] is the freedom to kill Palestinians, and with Qatar, Turkiye and Egypt now being involved in Gaza, over Israel’s objection, it won’t be allowed to do that for much longer.”

Read more here.

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) has said Israel’s deadly attacks on Gaza and restrictions at the Rafah crossing “should trigger accountability and the withholding of military aid” by the US government.

“Instead of doing that, the United States approved yet another ($6.7bn) weapons deal for Israel just last week, once again making clear how little Palestinian life is valued by this administration,” the group said in a statement.

It urged Trump to enforce “a real ceasefire” in the bombarded Palestinian enclave; lift Israel’s continued blockade of Gaza and withhold US military aid to its top ally.

“Anything less is continued US complicity and a deliberate choice to enable ongoing atrocities.”

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says killed Gaza emergency responder Hussein Hasan Hussein al-Sumairy was “deliberately targeted” by the Israeli military today.

In a statement, PRCS denounced al-Sumairy’s killing as a war crime under international law.

“This crime is part of [Israel’s] systematic policy of continuing to undermine the health and emergency [response] system in the Gaza Strip” since the Israeli bombardment began in October 2023, the agency said.

It called on the international community to take action to protect Palestinian healthcare workers and emergency responders, stressing that inaction gives Israel a greenlight to “continue violating international law and targeting humanitarian personnel”.

Rami Abu Jameh’s daughters are among the nearly two dozen Palestinians killed in the latest wave of Israeli attacks on Gaza. “My son and wife were injured. I lost my only two daughters,” the father says, with tears in his eyes.

Israeli strikes have killed at least 23 people, many of them children, since dawn, further shattering the idea that a “ceasefire” is in effect.

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The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says about 400 tonnes of specialised nutritional supplements, intended to support more than 40,000 children under five months old, has arrived in the Egyptian city of Port Said.

“The cargo has now been handed over to WFP for onward distribution” in Gaza, the agency said.

“France remains fully committed to full, safe and unhindered humanitarian access throughout the Gaza Strip, in accordance with international humanitarian law,” the French ambassador to Egypt, Eric Chevallier, said in a statement shared by the WFP.

Despite an increase in the amount of humanitarian aid getting into Gaza in recent months, the UN and humanitarian groups working in the territory say Israeli restrictions continue to prevent adequate supplies from reaching Palestinians in need.

The UN has repeatedly called on Israel to allow the free flow of critical aid, including food and shelter supplies, into Gaza.

WFP welcomes a vital contribution from #France to support life-saving assistance in the #Gaza Strip.

A shipment of around 400 MTs of specialized nutritious supplements for over 40,000 children under five arrived at Port Said, #Egypt.

🗞️ https://t.co/VHjKLUVyGt pic.twitter.com/8tllSdnb4i

— WFP in the Middle East & North Africa (@WFP_MENA) February 4, 2026

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar has hosted Latin American foreign ministers and senior US administration officials at the home of the Israeli ambassador in Washington, amid what he said was a “pro-Western shift taking place in countries across the continent”.

“The strong friendship between Israel and the United States, Argentina, Paraguay, and Ecuador has grown significantly over the past year, and I’m confident it will continue to grow even stronger,” he said on X.

While key Israeli allies have been taking some distance due to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and have formally recognised a Palestinian state, several Latin American countries have recently elected conservative leaders friendly to Israel.

US Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart, who was part of the delegation that met Saar, said on X that their growing alliance was “strengthening the cause of freedom and advancing our shared security and democratic values”.

The Israeli military has claimed its forces killed Muhammad al-Habil, a man it identified as the head of a Hamas unit, in an attack in Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp earlier today.

In a statement, the army accused al-Habil of being responsible for the death of an Israeli soldier who was held as a captive in Gaza.

We have reported earlier, based on a report from the Wafa news agency, that a Palestinian man was killed in the Shati refugee camp, but the report identified him as Muhammad al-Habil Hamada.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has said that the bodies of 54 Palestinians and 66 boxes containing human remains arrived at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after being released by Israeli authorities.

The bodies were returned through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and would be examined and handed over to the families.

The Israeli military has issued a statement, saying its forces killed a commander of the Northern Gaza Brigade in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) armed group earlier today.

The victim was identified as Ali Raziana and described as being responsible for coordinating with Hamas in their fight against the Israeli forces in the enclave.

The statement did not specify where in northern Gaza the strike took place.

Israeli forces have bulldozed part of a cemetery in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City, satellite imagery has revealed, churning up soil in an area whose size suggests the use of heavy equipment.

British newspaper The Guardian revealed the systematic destruction of the cemetery, which it said contained the remains of dozens of British and Australian and other allied soldiers killed in the first and second world wars.

Israeli forces are known to have damaged or destroyed graves across the Gaza Strip, according to multiple reports from the Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs. Last month, the al-Batsh cemetery in Gaza City was excavated as the army recovered the last captive’s body.

A report by Israeli human rights groups B’Tselem has revealed the inhumane treatment Palestinians face in Israeli prisons.

At least 84 Palestinians have died in Israeli detention centres since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began in October 2023, and Israel has yet to hand over 80 of the bodies.

Testimonies gathered by B’Tselem indicate Palestinian inmates face systematic physical, psychological and sexual abuse while the organisation has described the Israeli prison system as a network of torture camps.

Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim reports on the toll these abuses have taken on Palestinians in the video below:

A Palestinian resident of Burqa, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, has been injured after Israeli settlers stormed the village, according to the Wafa news agency.

Wafa said the settlers tried to steal the villager’s sheep and attacked him, “inflicting bruises across his body”.

The incident comes amid a wave of intensified Israeli settler and military violence against Palestinians across the West Bank in the shadow of the war on Gaza.

According to the UN, more than 1,000 Palestinians – nearly a quarter of them children – have been killed in Israeli attacks on the West Bank since October 2023.

“Attacks by Israeli settlers continue unabated, with Palestinian communities being constantly intimidated, uprooted and their livelihoods ruined. Impunity reigns,” the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, said this week.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have condemned Israel’s repeated violations of the Gaza “ceasefire” and emphasised the need to adhere to it in its entirety.

Following a meeting in Cairo at the conclusion of the Egyptian-Turkish Business Forum summit, the two leaders stressed the need to achieve a sustainable truce and halt all acts of violence, in order to protect civilians and guarantee the stability of the region.

Erdogan said Turkiye was actively involved in initiatives to achieve peace in the Gaza Strip and stressed that the Palestinian issue would remain at the forefront in their joint agenda with Egypt.

Read more here.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has expressed condolences to the family of a Palestinian paramedic killed earlier today in southern Gaza.

The agency said Hussein Hasan Hussein al-Sumairy – a first responder with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) – was killed in Khan Younis while “providing medical services in response to escalating hostilities”.

As we reported earlier, PRCS said one of its paramedics was killed in an Israeli attack on the al-Mawasi camp for displaced Palestinians.

“It is unacceptable that first responders in Gaza continue to face risk to their lives while carrying out a humanitarian mission,” the Red Cross said in a statement.

📍Gaza | We share our heartfelt condolences to the family, colleagues & friends of Hussein Hasan Hussein Al-Sumairy, who was killed today while providing emergency medical service in Khan Yunis.

Medical personnel & humanitarian workers must be able to carry out their work… pic.twitter.com/0dWHW2Gm6L

— ICRC (@ICRC) February 4, 2026

The Hind Rajab Foundation says it has filed a complaint in the US against an Israeli soldier named Adi Karni, “seeking [a] criminal investigation for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts amounting to genocide committed during Israel’s war in Gaza”.

The group said it has filed complaints against Karni in other places, including Peru.

“Karni is currently present in the United States and is scheduled to speak publicly at Boston University this evening, a fact that directly engages US jurisdiction and heightens the urgency of the filing,” it said.

The Hind Rajab Foundation has filed criminal complaints in countries around the world against members of the Israeli military, whom it accuses of being involved in war crimes in Gaza.

🚨🇺🇸 The #HindRajabFoundation has filed a complaint in the U.S. against Israeli soldier Adi Karni, already under investigation in Peru, for war crimes and genocide in Gaza.
Karni is currently in the U.S. after being invited to speak this evening at Boston University.
More ⬇️… pic.twitter.com/P8eJjlm8hp

— The Hind Rajab Foundation (@HindRFoundation) February 4, 2026