The ceasefire was signed on October 10, but Gaza continues to die a little more every day. Because of hunger, because of the elements, because of demolitions and, of course, also because of the persistent attacks by the Israeli Army. Now that the , has formally come into force, things do not change: this Wednesday, news arrives of at least 18 Palestinians murdered at the hands of Tel Aviv. One of them was a five-month-old baby. Another, ten days. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, the majority of those killed today are women and children, that is, civilians.
The attacks and the growing death toll are shaking the truce engineered by the president of the United States, and causing Palestinians in the Strip to say that they do not feel that the war is over, even though it formally ended almost four months ago, 70,000 dead later (a figure recognized even by Tel Aviv). More than 530 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the agreement came into force, local authorities say. In total, the number since the start of the offensive in October 2023 exceeds 71,800 deaths.
“The genocidal war against our people in the Gaza Strip continues,” states Dr. Mohamed Abu Selmiya, director of Shifa Hospital, in a Facebook post. “Where is the ceasefire? Where are the mediators?” he asks.
The most recent attacks occurred at several points throughout the north and south of the Palestinian territory, outside the area still under Israeli military control, separated by the . The first blow recorded at dawn on Wednesday was against a building in the Tuffah neighborhood, in northern Gaza, which killed at least 11 people, most of them from the same family. Among them were two parents, their 10-day-old daughter, their five-month-old cousin and their grandmother, according to reports to Shifa Hospital, which received the bodies.
The Israeli army says its aircraft and armored units responded to earlier fire after militants began shooting at troops, seriously wounding a reservist soldier, who was evacuated to a hospital. Israel called the militant attack a “violation of the agreement.”
However, the IDF reserves comment on the civilians killed in the Tuffah block and in a subsequent attack on a family’s tent in the city of Khan Younis, which killed three people, including a 12-year-old boy, also reports the Nasser hospital, which housed the bodies in its morgue. Local sources also informed EFE that there was also fire from military vehicles east of that city and shots from Israeli ships in the coastal areas. The attacks hit tents and homes. As a result, one of the houses caught fire.
They also reported that Israeli Army quadcopter drones opened fire on the population in the area.
The attacks by the armed forces also reached the Zeitún neighborhood in Gaza City, causing three deaths in the Shifa Hospital. The deceased are two adults aged 60 and 55 (a couple) and another five-month-old baby, adds EFE.
This morning, Israeli artillery shelling continues in the eastern part of the city of Deir el-Balah and in the Bureij camp, in central Gaza, reports also from the ground.
It goes on and on, because the attacks have not stopped at any time.
Trouble in Rafah
Furthermore, Raed al-Nims, spokesperson for the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS), indicated that the organization was informed this morning that the evacuation of patients and wounded through the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza has been canceled for today. “Unfortunately, a few minutes ago, we were informed that today’s evacuation process has been cancelled,” he told the same Qatari network.
He added that the procedure should have allowed the sick and injured to reach the Red Cross hospital for preliminary medical examinations before being transferred by ambulance to the Rafah crossing and subsequently to Egyptian hospitals or elsewhere. The crossing, with Egypt, was opened on Monday after two years of refusal by the Government of .
A Palestinian patient lies inside an ambulance, accompanied by a family member, while trying to return to his home in northern Gaza, on February 4, 2026.
Israel has alleged that the World Health Organization (WHO) has not given it “the necessary coordination details at this stage” and that is why the process has been stopped. Asked by EFE about this, the Israeli military body in charge of civil affairs in the occupied territories (COGAT) stated that the UN office, to which it attributes the responsibility of coordinating the arrival of Gazans to Rafah to leave for Egypt, “has not presented the necessary coordination details at this stage for procedural reasons.”
“Once the coordination details have been presented as agreed, the crossing to Egypt of the patients and their companions will be facilitated through the Rafah crossing,” adds COGAT.
The Rafah crossing opened last Monday for the first time in almost two years – except for a brief period at the beginning of 2025 – according to the ceasefire agreement sponsored by the US, but so far fewer people have circulated through it than initially agreed. According to the agreement, 200 people should cross it every day: 150 people – 50 sick and injured with 100 companions – from Gaza to Egypt and another 50 from Egypt to Gaza.
However, during Monday and Tuesday, and in the absence of official data since Israel has not provided them, 52 people crossed from Egypt to Gaza and 21 patients – with an undetermined number of companions – from Gaza to Egypt.
The delay in the Palestinian crossing this Wednesday comes after Israel bombed the Palestinian enclave overnight and killed ten people, in response to what it denounced as an attack by Gazan militiamen on its soldiers that left an Israeli soldier injured.
