Despite a ceasefire technically in place since October 10, 2025, the Aljazeera reporting network noted that ongoing military actions have claimed the lives of more than 1,200 Palestinians over the last nine months. Israel has repeatedly violated the “ceasefire” technically in place since October 10, 2025, killing more than 1,200 Palestinians since then.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital Warehouses Destroyed in Deir al-Balah Strike
In central Gaza, an early morning strike targeted storage facilities attached to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. Witnesses reported that the Israeli military issued an evacuation warning for the area only minutes before missiles struck, creating widespread panic among patients, medical personnel, and displaced families sheltering in nearby tent camps. According to the witnesses, the Israeli army issued an evacuation warning for the area only minutes before the strike. The attack caused fear and panic among patients, displaced people, and residents in the vicinity of the hospital, they added.
Gaza’s Health Ministry stated that two of the four storage buildings were completely obliterated and the remaining two suffered severe damage, alongside structural harm to the adjacent outpatient clinic. The Gaza Health Ministry condemned what it called a direct and systematic
Israeli attack on the warehouses, adding: The destructive force of the missiles used completely erased two of the four warehouses and heavily damaged the other two, as well as damaging parts of the outpatient clinic. Hospital spokesperson Khalil al-Daqran told Anadolu Agency that the destroyed facility contained vital intravenous fluids, medicines, and consumables required for critical care departments, including dialysis and intensive care units. Bombing caused loss of precious of intravenous solutions, medicines, and supplies used in vital departments, including dialysis and intensive care, hospital spokesperson tells Anadolu. ‘Around 1,000 displaced people lived here, and 50 to 60 tents were completely destroyed,’ displaced Palestinian tells Anadolu.
The Israeli occupation has committed a heinous crime. In the middle of the night, [the military] targeted a warehouse containing medical supplies for the hospital, and the occupation completely destroyed it.
Khalil al-Daqran, doctor and spokesperson at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, via Reuters.
Footage broadcast by Reuters revealed a crater several metres wide at the site, with medical supplies strewn across debris near a dense encampment where roughly 1,000 displaced individuals had erected between 50 and 60 tents. Residents recalled rushing into the night with their children moments before the blast flattened their temporary shelters.
Israeli Military Justifications and Disarmament Uncertainty
The Israeli military, operating under the direction of the Shin Bet intelligence agency, maintained that its operations targeted military infrastructure rather than civilian health facilities. The military said that the strikes were directed by the Shin Bet intelligence agency. In official statements, the military asserted that it struck five Hamas weapons storage depots across the territory, including a site located adjacent to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital that officials claimed was used as a hideout by operatives. The Israeli military said, meanwhile, that it had struck five Hamas weapons depots in the Gaza Strip. When contacted by AFP, the military said it was aware of one strike in the area on a Hamas terrorist.
In a statement, the military also said that it had struck several areas across Gaza and dismantled five Hamas weapons storage facilities. Several hours after the strike, the Israeli military said it had struck a Hamas hideout near the hospital, which the group used to store weapons. Other sites in Gaza that it said were used by Hamas to store arms were also struck, a military statement said.
While Hamas said it had agreed to a deal to end the war with Israel that includes provisions for handing over its weapons and the gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip, Israel has yet to officially comment on the agreement, but a political source has told AFP that there will be no withdrawal whatsoever
without Hamas’ genuine disarmament
.
Casualty Tolls and Recovery Operations in Gaza City
Across the wider territory, separate strikes compounded the civilian toll. Gaza authorities said that seven people were killed in Israeli strikes Saturday that also damaged a hospital’s medical supplies, a day after Hamas said it agreed to the latest stage of a deal to end the war. Mahmoud Basal, a spokesman for Gaza’s civil defence agency, told AFP that seven people were killed and several others injured across the Gaza Strip since dawn Saturday. An Israeli drone attack killed two people in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency, which cited al-Shifa Hospital, where the casualties were taken along with several wounded. A military spokesperson said those targeted were Hamas militants but declined to provide further details. A drone strike in Deir el-Balah killed one person, hospital sources told Al Jazeera Arabic, while another Palestinian was killed in a strike on a tent near a school in al-Mawasi, north of Khan Younis. Later, two more Palestinians were killed in an Israeli drone strike that targeted the rooftop of a house in the al-Reis area in the southern part of Gaza City. And one person was killed and several wounded in an air strike on al-Thalatini Street in Gaza City, emergency services said. He said that two of the people were killed and several injured in a strike by Israeli warplanes on a rooftop southwest of Gaza City. Al-Shifa Hospital reported two dead from the rooftop strike.
