{"id":270155,"date":"2026-02-02T12:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/270155\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:12:15","slug":"israeli-strikes-kill-over-30-in-gaza-health-ministry-says-in-deadliest-day-in-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/270155\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strikes kill over 30 in Gaza, health ministry says, in deadliest day in months"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Israeli strikes across Gaza<\/a> killed at least 31 people on Saturday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the highest day\u2019s death toll in over two months.\n <\/p>\n

\n The reported toll includes six children, the ministry said, while a further 30 people have been injured, including some in critical condition.\n <\/p>\n

\n The latest deaths come despite a ceasefire that went into effect in mid-October and pushed the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since the ceasefire to more than 500.\n <\/p>\n

\n About a quarter of the bodies recovered comprised children, and a third were women, Mahmoud Basal, a spokesperson for Gaza\u2019s Civil Defense, an emergency response organization, said.\n <\/p>\n

\n An elderly man and four female police officers were also among the dead.
Some people were trapped under the rubble as Israeli strikes targeted shelters, tents for displaced people, residential apartments and a police station, the spokesperson, Basal, said.\n <\/p>\n

\n The director of Al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in Gaza, Dr. Mohammad Abu Salmiya told CNN that the number of dead is expected to rise due to the amount of critically injured people arriving at hospitals.\n <\/p>\n

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\n The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the strikes were launched against Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets across the Gaza Strip in response to \u201cthe violation of the ceasefire agreement yesterday (Friday), in which eight terrorists were identified exiting the underground terror infrastructure in eastern Rafah.\u201d The IDF said Friday it had killed three of the militants and captured one.\n <\/p>\n

\n The IDF has continued to carry out regular strikes in Gaza since the ceasefire went into effect, accusing Hamas of violating the terms of the agreement.\n <\/p>\n

\n Samer Al-Atbash, a relative of those killed in a strike on Saturday, said, \u201cWe woke up at 4 a.m. suddenly to find that they (the Israeli military) struck three girls, my aunt who is an old lady and her daughter. She was a guest at our house. All my three nieces were then on the street.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cTruce, truce, what\u2019s our fault, what is our children\u2019s faults. I don\u2019t know what we did. These three children beloved by God, what they did do, I don\u2019t know.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The deaths come day after local media reported that the Israeli military had acknowledged in a briefing to Israeli journalists that approximately 70,000 Palestinians were killed during the war in Gaza and that the figures from the health ministry in the enclave are largely accurate.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth quoted military officials Thursday as saying, \u201cWe estimate that about 70,000 Gazans were killed in the war, not including the missing.\u201d Kan 11, the country\u2019s public broadcaster, attributed the information to the Coordinator of Government Affairs in the Territories (COGAT) and said there is now an effort to analyze how many of those killed were civilian or militant.\n <\/p>\n

\n The IDF said the \u201cdetails published do not reflect official IDF data.\u201d But an IDF spokesperson refused to say whether the military kept official data on Palestinians killed in Gaza or if it would be released.\n <\/p>\n

\n Early in the war, Israel had cast doubt on the number of Palestinians the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had killed in its attacks, repeatedly accusing the health ministry, which it says is controlled by Hamas, of inflating the figures.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 31 people on Saturday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-270155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}