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Israeli subject strikes connected Monday (February 9, 2026) killed 3 radical westbound of Gaza City, according to the infirmary wherever the casualties arrived.
Shifa Hospital reported the deaths amid the months-old ceasefire that has seen continued fighting. The Israeli Army said Monday (February 9, 2026) it is striking targets successful effect to Israeli troops coming nether occurrence successful the confederate metropolis of Rafah, which it says was a usurpation of the ceasefire. The Army said it is striking targets “in a precise manner."
The four-month-old U.S.-backed ceasefire followed stalled negotiations and included Israel and Hamas accepting a 20-point program projected by U.S. President Donald Trump aimed astatine ending the warfare unleashed by Hamas' October 7, 2023, onslaught into Israel. At the time, Trump said it would pb to a “Strong, Durable, and Everlasting Peace.” Hamas freed each the surviving hostages it inactive held astatine the outset of the woody successful speech for thousands of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and the remains of others.
But the larger issues the statement sought to address, including the aboriginal governance of the strip, were met with reservations, and the U.S. offered nary steadfast timeline.
Top UN authoritative acrophobic implicit Israel's West Bank determination
The United Nations apical authoritative connected Monday expressed interest astir the Israeli information cabinet's determination to deepen the country's power implicit the occupied West Bank.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “gravely concerned” and warned that the Israeli determination could erode the imaginable of a two-state solution, spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said successful a statement.
“Such actions, including Israel's continued beingness successful the Occupied Palestinian Territory are not lone destabilising but – arsenic recalled by the International Court of Justice – unlawful,” helium said.
Israel 's information furniture connected Sunday approved measures that purpose to deepen Israeli power implicit the occupied West Bank and weaken the already constricted powers of the Palestinian Authority.
Israel's far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the measures would marque it easier for Jewish settlers to unit Palestinians to springiness up land, adding that “we volition proceed to hide the thought of a Palestinian state.” Israel captured the West Bank, arsenic good arsenic Gaza and eastbound Jerusalem, successful the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians privation each 3 territories for a aboriginal state.
Rafah crossing improving, authoritative says
The Palestinian authoritative acceptable to oversee day-to-day affairs successful Gaza said connected Monday that transition done the Rafah crossing with Egypt is starting to amended aft a chaotic archetypal week of reopening marked by confusion, delays and a constricted fig of crossings.
Ali Shaath, caput of the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, told Egypt's Al-Qahera News that operations astatine the crossing were improving connected Sunday. He said 88 Palestinians were scheduled to question done Rafah connected Monday, much than person crossed successful the archetypal days since reopening. Israel did not instantly corroborate the figures.
The European Union borderline ngo astatine the crossing said successful a connection Sunday that 284 Palestinians had crossed since reopening. Travellers included radical returning aft having fled the warfare and aesculapian evacuees and their escorts. In total, 53 aesculapian evacuees departed during the archetypal 5 days of operations.
That remains good beneath the agreed people of 50 aesculapian evacuees exiting and 50 returnees entering daily, negotiated by Israeli, Egyptian, Palestinian and planetary officials.
Shaath and different members of the committee stay successful Egypt, without Israeli authorisation to participate the war-battered enclave.
The Rafah crossing opened past week for the archetypal clip since mid-2024, 1 of the main requirements for the ceasefire betwixt Israel and Hamas. It was closed Friday and Saturday due to the fact that of disorder astir operations.
Palestinian officials accidental astir 20,000 radical are seeking to permission Gaza for aesculapian attraction unavailable successful its mostly destroyed wellness system.
Palestinians who returned to Gaza successful the archetypal days aft the crossing reopened described hourslong delays and invasive searches by Israeli authorities and an Israeli-backed Palestinian equipped group, Abu Shabab. Israel denied mistreatment.
Gaza's Health Ministry said connected Monday that 5 radical were killed implicit the erstwhile 24 hours, bringing the decease toll to 581 since the October ceasefire. The truce led to the instrumentality of the remaining hostages — some surviving captives and bodies — from the 251 abducted during the October 7, 2023, onslaught that triggered the war.
Hamas-led militants killed astir 1,200 people, mostly civilians, successful the attack. Israel's subject violative has since killed implicit 72,000 Palestinians, according to the ministry, which operates nether the Hamas-run authorities and is staffed by aesculapian professionals. The U.N. and autarkic experts see it the astir reliable root connected warfare casualties.
