Overview
- Hospital and civil defence officials reported 26 to 32 fatalities, including children and women, after strikes hit an apartment building, a tent area for displaced families, and a Gaza City police station.
- The Israel Defense Forces said the attacks targeted Hamas and Islamic Jihad commanders, weapons sites, and launch infrastructure in response to eight militants detected exiting a tunnel in Rafah on Friday.
- Al‑Shifa and Nasser hospitals detailed specific incidents, including three children and two women killed in a Gaza City apartment and seven people, among them multiple children, killed when a tent camp fire erupted after a strike.
- Israeli authorities say Rafah will reopen on a restricted basis for vetted travelers, as both Israel and Hamas continue to accuse each other of breaching the truce that took effect in October.
- Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israeli fire has killed more than 500 people since the ceasefire began, and separate reporting highlighted a seized pre‑war document, attributed to Kan, in which an Islamic Jihad representative allegedly acknowledged deadly rocket misfires inside Gaza.