11 killed, 6 wounded by IDF in Gaza since dawn, Hamas-run health ministry says

Gaza hospitals have received six people wounded and the bodies of 11 people killed by the IDF since dawn, the Strip’s Hamas-run health ministry says in a brief statement.

The statement does not identify the people, say where they were killed or wounded, or specify the severity of the wounds.

According to Palestinian media, the dead include a woman and child who were killed near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip; three members of a single family, including a child, who were killed in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah; three brothers killed in central Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp; and three journalists working for an Egyptian governmental aid agency who were killed near central Gaza’s al-Zahra area.

Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital reportedly received the bodies of Hanan Hamdan, 32, who was killed on the Hamas-controlled side of the Gaza ceasefire line, and Moatasem al-Sharafi, 13, who was killed on the Israeli-controlled side of the ceasefire line.

Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital, in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah, reportedly received the bodies of Sirhan, Muhammad and Mussa al-Rajoudi, ages 10, 37 and 22, respectively. The three were said to have been killed on the Hamas-controlled side of the ceasefire line near Deir al-Balah.

The hospital also reportedly received the bodies of brothers Muhammad, Faisal and Walid Abu Sleisel, whose ages were not reported. They are said to have been killed in a strike on Bureij, which the ceasefire line runs through.

There is no immediate comment from the IDF on those reports. The army regularly says it fires on gunmen who cross the ceasefire line and who pose a threat to troops.

Journalists Abed Shaat, Anas Ghoneim and Muhammad Qashta, whose respective ages were not reported, were killed while filming an encampment established in central Gaza’s al-Zahra area by the Egyptian Relief Committee in the Gaza Strip, according to the committee. Al-Aqsa Hospital reportedly received one of the journalists’ bodies while Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital received the other two.

The IDF said the three were piloting a drone that was “affiliated with the Hamas terror group” and posed a threat to Israeli soldiers stationed in the area. Footage published by Arabic media indicated that at least one of the three, Ghoneim, was a drone photographer.

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— بوابة اللاجئين الفلسطينيين (@refugeesps) January 21, 2026