By Middle East Correspondent
London, (The Muslim News): Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man and wounded seven others on Thursday in renewed attacks across the Gaza Strip, in what medical sources described as further violations of a ceasefire that has nominally been in place since October 10.
According to local medics, the fatality occurred in the Zarqa area of Al-Tuffah neighbourhood, northeast of Gaza City, after Israeli troops opened fire. In central Gaza, four Palestinians were injured by live fire in the Bureij refugee camp and transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in
Deir al-Balah. Their conditions were not immediately disclosed.
Three others, including two children, were wounded in Khan Younis in the south. Meanwhile, Israeli artillery shelled areas east of Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, beyond the so-called “Yellow Line”, though no casualties were immediately reported.
The “Yellow Line” demarcates areas of Israeli military deployment — comprising roughly 53 per cent of Gaza’s eastern territory — from western zones where Palestinians are permitted to move.
The October 10 ceasefire formally ended a war that began on October 8, 2023, and raged for two years. Palestinian authorities say more than 72,000 people were killed and over 171,000 wounded during the conflict, with 90 per cent of civilian infrastructure damaged or destroyed. The United Nations has estimated reconstruction costs at approximately $70 billion.
Medical sources now state that the total number of Palestinians killed since October 7, 2023, has risen to 72,049, with 171,691 injured.
Despite the ceasefire, Gaza’s Health Ministry reports that at least 591 Palestinians have been killed and more than 1,578 injured in Israeli attacks since the truce took effect.
Palestinian detainee dies in Israeli custody
The violence comes as Palestinian prisoner advocacy groups confirmed the death of a Gaza ambulance officer while in Israeli detention.
The Palestinian Civil Affairs Authority, the official liaison with Israel, said Hatem Ismail Rayan, 59, died in Israel’s Negev Prison in the south of the country. The announcement was made in a joint statement by the Palestinian Prisoner Society and the Palestinian Commission of Detainees Affairs.
Rayan had been detained on December 27, 2024, from Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza. His son, Moaz (wounded at the time of his father’s arrest )remains in Israeli custody.
The two organisations said that as of January 12, at least 87 Palestinian detainees whose identities are known have died in Israeli prisons since the start of what they describe as the Israeli genocide in Gaza, citing torture, starvation, sexual abuse, systematic denial of basic rights, and degrading and inhumane detention conditions.
They estimate the total number of Palestinian detainees who have died in custody has surpassed 100, noting that dozens of prisoners from Gaza remain forcibly disappeared. The groups further reported that dozens of Palestinians were summarily executed in the field.
Since 1967, 324 Palestinian prisoners are known to have died in Israeli custody, according to the two organisations. They added that Israel continues to withhold the bodies of 95 deceased prisoners whose identities are known, including 84 who died after the start of the Gaza war.
Separate prisoner groups report that more than 9,300 Palestinians were being held in Israeli prisons as of February 5, including approximately 350 children.
Israeli strike in southern Lebanon kills one
Elsewhere, one person was killed in an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle in southern Lebanon, in what Lebanon’s National News Agency described as another breach of a ceasefire agreement.
The drone fired three guided missiles at a vehicle in Bint Jbeil district in Nabatieh Governorate. The Israeli military claimed the strike targeted a member of Hezbollah.
The attack comes amid repeated Israeli violations of a ceasefire reached with Lebanon in late November 2024. Under the terms of the agreement, Israel has maintained that it continues to strike what it describes as Hezbollah infrastructure.
Israeli ceasefire violations have killed and wounded hundreds of Lebanese civilians, while Israeli forces continue to occupy five strategic hilltops seized during the latest war, in addition to other Lebanese territories held for decades.
Israel began military operations against Lebanon in October 2023, escalating them into a full-scale war in September 2024. More than 4,000 people were killed and around 17,000 wounded in the fighting, according to Lebanese authorities
[Photo: Palestinian children welcome the approaching Ramadan despite living amid the rubble of homes destroyed during more than two years of ongoing Israeli attacks at Bureij Refugee Camp in Bureij, Gaza on February 13, 2026. Amidst the widespread destruction and harsh living conditions, the young residents light traditional Ramadan lanterns to keep the festive spirit alive and bring moments of hope and celebration. Photojournalist: Moiz Salhi/AA]
