Overview
- Gaza’s Civil Defense, which operates under Hamas authority, says multiple strikes on January 8 left 13 people dead, including five children.
- Reported incidents include a drone hit on a displaced-persons tent that killed four, three of them children, and a separate strike that killed an 11-year-old near Jabalia.
- The group also cited one fatality in a strike on a school, an additional death near Khan Younis, and four more killed in an evening strike on a house in eastern Gaza City.
- The Israeli army said it conducted precision strikes on Hamas operatives and infrastructure in response to a projectile launch, calling the launch a truce violation.
- Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem accused Israel of abandoning its ceasefire commitments, as the October 10 truce remains fragile with a reported 425 Palestinian deaths since then and Israel reporting three soldiers killed.