{"id":22038,"date":"2026-02-15T14:12:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=22038"},"modified":"2026-02-15T14:12:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T14:12:55","slug":"several-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-airstrikes-on-gaza-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=22038","title":{"rendered":"Several Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza | Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">At least 12 Palestinians were killed and several more injured across the Gaza Strip on Sunday as the Israeli military said it carried out airstrikes in response to ceasefire violations by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gaza\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Gaza<\/a> civil defence agency said five people were killed and several others hurt when an airstrike targeted a tent sheltering displaced people in the northern city of Jabaliya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">According to the agency, which operates as a rescue force under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/hamas\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Hamas<\/a> authorities, five more people were killed and several injured in a separate early morning strike in the southern city of Khan Younis. It said one more person was killed after Israeli shelling in Gaza City, while one person was killed by Israeli gunfire in Beit Lahia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Hazem Qassem, a Hamas spokesperson in Gaza, accused Israel of committing a new \u201cmassacre\u201d against displaced Palestinians, calling it a serious breach of the ceasefire days before the first meeting of Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/13\/dispute-future-of-gaza-trump-board-of-peace-eu-un\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Board of Peace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Despite a US-brokered truce that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/14\/us-witkoff-announces-start-of-gaza-ceasefire-second-phase\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">entered its second phase<\/a> last month, violence has continued in the Palestinian territory, with Israel and Hamas accusing each other of violating the agreement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Al-Shifa and Nasser hospitals confirmed they had received the bodies of at least seven people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIsrael doesn\u2019t understand ceasefires or truces,\u201d Osama Abu Askar, who lost his nephew in the Jabaliya attack, told Agence France-Presse. He said the people killed there were hit as they slept.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been living under a truce for months and they\u2019ve still targeted us. Israel operates on this principle \u2013 saying one thing and doing another,\u201d Askar added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Dozens of relatives and mourners gathered at Nasser hospital where the bodies of some of those killed were laid out in white shrouds. Men and women stood in prayer before the funeral, facing the corpses in the hospital compound.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"c58ec5fa-90aa-4b3e-8e90-980678435600\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-173mewl\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-fd61eq\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><svg width=\"18\" height=\"13\" viewbox=\"0 0 18 13\"><path d=\"M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">The families of those killed gathered at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis before the funerals.<\/span> Photograph: Ramadan Abed\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">A military official said Israeli forces attacked in response to Hamas violations of the ceasefire agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, which took effect on 10 October, Israeli troops withdrew to positions behind a so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/08\/yellow-line-that-divides-gaza-under-trump-plan-is-new-border-for-israel-says-military-chief\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">\u201cyellow line\u201d<\/a>, although they remain in control of more than half the Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe violation included an identification of several armed terrorists who took cover under debris east of the yellow line and adjacent to IDF troops, likely after exiting underground infrastructure in the area,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"6fbe97e7-8400-477f-b2cb-e54c63de77a5\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\"dcr-47fhrn\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:12,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Bitter dispute between Trump and EU over Gaza\u2019s future breaks out into the open&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;6fbe97e7-8400-477f-b2cb-e54c63de77a5&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/13\/dispute-future-of-gaza-trump-board-of-peace-eu-un&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;design&quot;:0,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:0}}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cCrossing the yellow line in the vicinity of IDF troops, while armed, is an explicit ceasefire violation and demonstrates how Hamas systematically violates the ceasefire agreement with intent to harm the troops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Israel has unilaterally moved the yellow line deeper into Gaza even though Israeli withdrawals are part of the ceasefire deal, and Hamas has so far rejected demands to lay down its weapons, also envisaged in the plan. Israel has said it will have to force Hamas to disarm if it does not do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Gaza\u2019s health ministry says at least 601 people have been killed since the truce began. The Israeli military says at least four of its soldiers have been killed in the same period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><em>Agence France-Presse and Reuters contributed to this report<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Palestinians #killed #Israeli #airstrikes #Gaza #Gaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 12 Palestinians were &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}