Gaza Civil Defense reported 12 deaths on Sunday in Israeli strikes across the Palestinian territory, while the Israeli army claims to have responded to a "blatant violation" of the ceasefire. Israel and Hamas accuse each other of breaking the truce, while the humanitarian crisis continues in the enclave.
Published on: 02/15/2026 - 3:41 p.m. Modified on: 02/16/2026 - 11:10 a.m.
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The Civil Defense of the Gaza Strip announced that Israeli strikes left 12 dead on Sunday February 15 across the territory, where the Israeli army claimed to have responded to a "blatant violation" of the ceasefire.
Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas accuse each other of violating this ceasefire, which came into force on October 10 after two years of war.
According to Civil Defense, a first aid organization operating under the authority of Hamas, one of the Israeli strikes targeted a tent sheltering displaced people in the Jabaliya sector in northern Gaza, killing five people.
Another strike killed five people in Khan Younes, in the south, and two other people were killed in Gaza City and Beit Lahia (north), according to this source.
Al-Chifa hospitals in Gaza City and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younes confirmed having received seven bodies.
"Israel does not understand what a ceasefire or a truce is. We have been living under a truce for months but they are hitting us, they are saying one thing and doing another," Ossama Abou Askar, whose nephew was killed, told AFP.
According to him, four civilians were killed at dawn in the Jabaliya refugee camp "while they were sleeping in the street".
In Khan Younes, dozens of Palestinians gathered at Nasser hospital to watch over their killed loved ones, whose bodies were wrapped in white shrouds, according to images shot by AFP.
"Underground installations"
The Israeli army claimed to have carried out strikes after identifying "several armed terrorists who were sheltering under rubble", "probably after emerging from underground installations", in the Beit Hanoun sector (north).
The army, which denounced a "flagrant violation" of the ceasefire, specified that these men had crossed the Yellow Line, demarcating the area it still occupies since the start of the ceasefire.
“Targeting displaced people in their tents is a serious violation of the ceasefire agreement,” denounced Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem.
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Although exchanges of fire continue daily in the territory, the United States announced in mid-January the transition to the second phase of President Donald Trump's plan, aimed at definitively ending the war.
It provides for a gradual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, the disarmament of Hamas and the deployment of an international stabilization force.
The army still controls more than half of the territory while Hamas, in power in Gaza since 2007, categorically refuses to lay down its arms under the conditions set by Israel.
A total of 601 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the truce, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, placed under the authority of Hamas and whose figures are considered reliable by the UN. The Israeli army reported four soldiers killed.
Given the restrictions imposed on the media in Gaza and the difficulties of access on the ground, the AFP is not able to independently verify the information and assessments of the different parties.
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After more than four months of truce, the territory remains plunged into a major humanitarian crisis.
The NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) decided to suspend its non-essential activities at the Nasser hospital, one of the largest in the territory, at the end of January, after patients and staff members noted the presence of "armed men, some masked".
MSF told AFP on Sunday that it had not identified these men, while Israel once again accused Hamas of using the establishment for military purposes.
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“After far too long, MSF has finally recognized what Israel has always said: Hamas uses the Nasser hospital as a terrorist base,” said Cogat, an organization of the Defense Ministry.
Hamas has always rejected these accusations.
With AFP
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