The Palestinian resistance group said the dead were all members of the Abu Shaban family, seven children and three women among them, killed when an Israeli tank fired directly at their vehicle as they attempted to check on their home.
“This is a full-fledged crime that reveals the occupation’s premeditated intent to target defenceless civilians without justification,” Hamas said in a statement.
Israel “persists in carrying out assaults and crimes against our people, in flagrant violation of all commitments stipulated in the agreement, confirming its aggressive intentions,” the group added.
“We call on President Trump and the brotherly mediators to follow up on the criminal occupation's violations, fulfil their role in obligating it to respect the ceasefire agreement, and stop targeting our people and endangering their lives,” Hamas said.
Ceasefire violations
The killings come amid a growing list of over 40 Israeli ceasefire violations reported across Gaza since the agreement was signed last week at the Sharm El-Sheikh Summit for Peace, a deal Trump hailed as “a tremendous day for the world.”
On Tuesday, at least six Palestinians were killed and several others wounded when Israeli drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in Gaza City’s Shuja’iyya neighbourhood and in Khan Younis, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.
Two days later, two brothers from the Abu Mustafa family were killed in an Israeli airstrike east of Khan Younis.
On Monday, Israeli forces fatally shot Khalid Barbakh while he was inspecting his home in the city’s al-Sikka area, another incident Palestinian officials said violated the ceasefire.
The truce, brokered by the United States, Egypt, Turkey, and Qatar and signed on 13 October, was meant to end two years of Israel's genocidal war that killed over 67,000 Palestinians and devastated 90 percent of the strip. It included provisions for a full halt to hostilities, a prisoner exchange, and the unrestricted entry of humanitarian aid.
The latest attack came a day after Hamas handed over the body of a deceased Israeli through the Red Cross, the tenth returned since the truce took effect.
Earlier this week, Hamas said it had handed back to Israel all the bodies it could recover so far.
“The Resistance has fulfilled its commitment to the agreement by handing over all living Israeli prisoners in its custody, as well as the corpses it could access,” the Ezz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades stated.
“As for the remaining corpses, it requires extensive efforts and special equipment for their retrieval and extraction. We are exerting great effort to close this file.”
US President Donald Trump said Hamas was still “digging” through the ruins to locate other bodies, with an advisor emphasizing that “the entire Gaza Strip has been pulverized.”
“They want to see the deal completed in that regard,” one senior US advisor told reporters Wednesday. “They returned bodies the next day and then the next day, as quickly as we give them intelligence.”
Rafah remains closed
Israeli media, citing senior officials, reported that the government has decided to keep the Rafah crossing closed and further restrict the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
Israel seized the crossing from the Palestinian side in May 2024, months after launching its war on the enclave.
On Friday, Hamas reiterated its call for the reopening of Rafah and for an independent, technocratic body to oversee reconstruction efforts.
“We call for the opening of Rafah crossing in both directions to allow the free movement of people and goods into Gaza,” the group said.
Turkish search team awaits entry
An 81-member Turkish search-and-rescue team from the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) remains stranded outside Gaza, awaiting Israeli clearance to enter and help locate bodies trapped beneath the rubble.
“It remains unclear when Israel will allow the Turkish team to enter Gaza,” a Turkish official told AFP, describing the mission as “purely humanitarian.”
Aid still below needs
On Friday, the United Nations called for all border crossings into Gaza to be opened immediately to deliver urgently needed aid, warning that reversing the ongoing famine under Israel's blockade will “take some time.”
The World Food Programme (WFP) said it had moved nearly 3,000 tonnes of food supplies into Gaza since the truce began, but that deliveries remain far below needs.
“The ceasefire has opened a narrow window of opportunity,” WFP spokeswoman Abeer Etefa said in Geneva. “We’re still below what we need, but we’re getting there.”
Etefa said five food distribution points were operating across Gaza, mainly in the south, and that 57 aid trucks carrying flour and nutrition supplies crossed via Karm Abu Salem and Kissufim on Thursday.
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