IDF says Gaza strikes hit terrorists, weapons facilities after ceasefire breach; hospitals report 30 killed

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Saturday that strikes crossed Gaza were carried retired successful effect to what it described arsenic a ceasefire usurpation successful which 8 terrorists were identified exiting underground panic infrastructure successful eastbound Rafah.

The IDF said it struck 4 commanders and further terrorists from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, arsenic good arsenic a weapons retention facility. A weapons manufacturing tract and 2 motorboat sites belonging to Hamas successful cardinal Gaza were besides hit, the IDF said.

Gaza hospitals tally by the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry said astatine slightest 30 Palestinians were reported killed successful the strikes, according to The Associated Press. 

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Rescuers transportation the assemblage of a unfortunate amid debris pursuing an Israeli airstrike connected a constabulary presumption successful Gaza City connected Jan. 31, 2026, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images)

Hospital officials reported that casualties included civilians. They said the casualties included 2 women and six children from 2 antithetic families. An airstrike besides deed a constabulary presumption successful Gaza City, sidesplitting astatine slightest 14 and wounding others, Shifa Hospital manager Mohamed Abu Selmiya said.

The strikes came a time aft Israel accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire. An Israeli subject authoritative told the AP that the strikes were carried retired successful effect to ceasefire violations but declined to remark connected circumstantial targets.

The unit unfolded 1 time earlier the Rafah borderline crossing with Egypt was acceptable to reopen, a determination seen arsenic a cardinal measurement successful the 2nd signifier of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. That signifier includes constricted borderline reopenings, efforts to demilitarize Gaza and discussions implicit postwar governance.

Israel has said the Rafah crossing has been a focal constituent for concerns astir weapons smuggling by Hamas, and that information arrangements would travel immoderate reopening.

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Rescue workers transportation the assemblage of a unfortunate amid debris pursuing an Israeli airstrike connected a constabulary presumption successful Gaza City connected Jan. 31, 2026, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bureau said Israel agreed to a "limited reopening" of the crossing nether President Donald Trump’s 20-point bid plan.

Israel has said it continues to transportation retired strikes crossed the portion successful effect to violations of ceasefire understandings. On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces said it struck Hezbollah infrastructure and engineering vehicles successful confederate Lebanon, accusing the radical of attempting to reestablish panic infrastructure successful usurpation of agreements with Israel.

Meanwhile, a elder Israeli subject authoritative acknowledged that the IDF believes the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry’s wide decease toll from the warfare is mostly accurate, according to The Times of Israel. The subject estimates astir 70,000 Gazans were killed during the two-plus-year struggle triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack.

Rescuers and onlookers basal amid the rubble of a constabulary presumption pursuing an Israeli airstrike successful Gaza City connected Jan. 31, 2026, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP via Getty Images)

The Gaza Health Ministry presently reports 71,667 deaths, including much than 450 since the October 2025 ceasefire, though Israeli officials said the estimation does not see bodies believed to beryllium buried nether rubble.

Gaza’s Health Ministry has said 509 Palestinians person been killed by Israeli occurrence since the ceasefire began Oct. 10.

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Israel besides returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians connected Thursday, days aft recovering the remains of the past Israeli hostage, a Gaza Health Ministry authoritative said, according to the AP.

The transportation marked the last hostage-detainee speech nether the archetypal signifier of the ceasefire.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.