Israeli attacks on Gaza kill nearly 20 people, including two babies, hospitals say, asking:

Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip — Israeli attacks on Loop At least 19 Palestinians died Wednesday morning, most of them women and children, according to hospital officials. Israel said the attacks would continue, calling them a response to a militant attack on Israeli soldiers that seriously wounded one.

Among the Palestinians killed were five children, including a five-month-old baby and a baby just ten days old; seven women; and a paramedic, hospital officials said. They were the last Palestinians killed in Gaza since a Peace plan mediated by the United Stateswhich has been marked by deadly Israeli attacks, put a ceasefire into effect on October 10, 2025.

At least 556 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire in that time, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, which put the death toll at 21 on Wednesday alone.

The Israel Defense Forces, in a statement on Wednesday, accused Hamas militants of a “flagrant violation of the current ceasefire agreement” with the alleged attack on forces in northern Gaza.

“Upon identifying the fire, IDF armored units [tanks] and the FAI [Israeli Air Force] planes carried out attacks in the area,” the army said.

He Palestinian death toll rises has put the US-backed peace plan to the test, and many Palestinians in the Strip say they do not feel the war is over.

“The genocidal war against our people in the Gaza Strip continues,” Dr. Mohamed Abu Selmiya, director of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, said in a Facebook post. “Where is the ceasefire? Where are the mediators?”

An Israeli military officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military policy, told The News that Israel would continue attacking the strip. Since the ceasefire went into effect, Israel’s military has defended the deadly attacks by saying they are responding to Hamas violations or militant attacks on its soldiers. The military says four soldiers have been killed since the ceasefire went into effect.

The mediators condemned the attacks and Hamas called them violations of the agreement.

Early Wednesday, Israeli troops fired on a building in the northern Gaza neighborhood of Tuffah, killing at least 11 people, most of them from the same family, said Shifa Hospital, which received the bodies. Among the dead were two parents, their 10-day-old daughter, their 5-month-old cousin and their grandmother.

Israel’s military said its aircraft and armored units had returned fire after militants began shooting at troops, seriously wounding a reservist soldier who was evacuated to a hospital. Israel called the militant attack a violation of the agreement.

After the attack on Tuffah, Israeli fire continued along the strip, hospital officials said. An Israeli attack on a family’s tent in the southern town of Khan Younis killed three people, including a 12-year-old boy, said Nasser Hospital, which received the bodies. Tank shelling in the eastern Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City killed three more Palestinians, according to Shifa Hospital, including a husband and his wife.

An attack on a tent in the Muwasi area of ​​Khan Younis killed at least two people and injured five others, according to a field hospital run by the Palestinian Red Crescent in the area. Among the dead was Hussein Hassan Hussein al-Semieri, a Palestinian Red Crescent paramedic who was on duty at the time, the hospital said.

More than 71,800 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the war, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many were combatants or civilians. The ministry, part of the Hamas-led government, maintains detailed records of victims that are generally considered reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. They believe the actual death toll is substantially higher because there are still many bodies to be recovered from the rubble.

Israel disputes the ministry’s count, but has not provided civilian casualty figures in Gaza since it launched the war against Hamas in response to the group’s terrorist attack on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 Israelis and saw another 251 taken hostage.