Israeli attacks on Gaza kill 9 including 5 children

AFP , Thursday 8 Jan 2026

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli attacks in the Palestinian territory on Thursday killed nine people, including five children, despite a ceasefire that has largely halted the genocidal Israeli war.

Relatives react as they carry a white body bag containing remains of a fire victim that started afte
FILE PHOTO: Relatives react as they carry a white body bag containing remains of a fire victim that started after the inhabitants ignited candles to light up inside their tents at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Gaza City.

 

Four people, including three children, were killed when a drone struck a tent sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza, agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.

In the north of the Gaza Strip, an 11-year-old girl was killed near the Jabalia refugee camp, and a strike on a school killed one person, while a drone near Khan Yunis in the south killed a man, the agency added.

Two more Gazans, including a child, were killed in other attacks, reported the agency, which operates under Hamas authority.

 

 

Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told AFP that the strikes in Gaza on Thursday "confirm the Israeli occupation's renunciation of its commitment to the ceasefire".

The Israeli occupation army has killed more than 71,400 people, mostly women and children, and injured over 171,000 others in a brutal offensive since its genocidal war on Gaza, which began in October 2023, that has left the Gaza Strip in ruins.

Despite the ceasefire in place since October 11, the Israeli army has continued its attacks, killing 425 Palestinians and wounding 1,189 others, according to local health authorities. 

At least 21 people were killed on November 22 in Israeli strikes, making it one of the deadliest days in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect.

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