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Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Hamas health ministry says 3 killed by IDF brought to Gaza hospitals over past day
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleGaza hospitals have over the past 24 hours received the bodies of three people killed by IDF gunfire as well as 15 wounded people, the Strip’s Hamas-run health ministry says in an afternoon report.
The report does not identify the dead, say where the people were killed or wounded, or specify the severity of the wounds. Nor does it specify, as the near-daily reports frequently do, whether the dead were killed within the past 24 hours or before that.
The IDF said yesterday that it killed four gunmen who approached troops near the Gaza ceasefire line in the Strip’s north.
The four were not immediately identified in Palestinian media, and it was unclear if any of their bodies were subsequently retrieved by Gazan first responders and brought to a hospital.
Meanwhile, Palestinian media have reported at least two people killed and several wounded by the IDF in Gaza since yesterday afternoon.
The IDF has not commented on the reports, but regularly says such shootings come in response to ceasefire violations.
According to the Palestinian reports, 19-year-old Ahmed Aal was killed by IDF gunfire this morning on the Hamas-controlled side of the ceasefire line south of Khan Younis, in the Strip’s south. His body was reportedly brought to Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital.
Yesterday afternoon, a man was also reportedly shot dead by the IDF on the Hamas-controlled side of the Gaza ceasefire line in Jabalia, in the Strip’s north. The man was not immediately identified, and it was unclear if he was killed in the strike referred to by the military. His body was reportedly brought to Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital.
Several people were also reportedly wounded yesterday afternoon in an Israeli strike in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp. The strike was said to have targeted a mourners’ tent.
Footage published by Arabic media showed first responders searching for people in the rubble in the immediate aftermath of the strike, and the wounded, including women and a small child, being taken to al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah.
مشاهد أولية لقصف إسرائيلي استهدف بيت عزاء في مخيم النصيرات وسط قطاع غزة، فيما أفاد مصدر في مستشفى العودة بوقوع عدد من المصابين جراء القصف#فيديو pic.twitter.com/gMhrz6B2NP
— قناة الجزيرة (@AJArabic) February 2, 2026
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