Israeli strikes across Gaza kill at least 26 on New Year’s Day
Event date: 2025-01-01
Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip killed at least 26 Palestinians on January 1, including four children and one woman, according to reporting from Al Jazeera that drew on Gaza health and civil defense officials.
The strikes were reported in Jabalia in northern Gaza, the Bureij refugee camp and Gaza City in central Gaza, and Khan Younis in the south. Officials said at least 10 other Palestinians were missing and believed to be under the rubble after the attacks, which came as displaced families across the strip were already dealing with flooding from heavy rain.
The deadliest single incident described in the report appeared to be an overnight strike on a house in Jabalia where displaced people were living. Gaza civil defense spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said 15 people were killed there and more than 20 were injured. A relative of some of the victims said responders were still searching for survivors inside what had become a pile of debris.
Other attacks added to the toll. In Bureij refugee camp, a woman and a child were killed, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies. In Gaza City's Shujaiya neighborhood, a strike on a residential home killed six people, including two children and a woman, according to civil defense officials. In Khan Younis, another strike killed three people, according to hospitals that received the bodies.
The report also noted how difficult it was for civil defense crews to respond to distress calls because of the intensity of the bombardment. That constraint mattered because people were still missing and could have been trapped under collapsed structures while rescue workers struggled to reach them.
The source text did not present the day's violence as a single isolated event. Rather, it described a series of strikes spread across the territory, indicating that the New Year holiday did not ease the pace of attacks or the pressure on emergency services.
What made the report especially stark was the combination of direct military violence and a humanitarian disaster layered on top of it. Families were not only mourning the dead and searching for those missing; they were also trying to cope with rain-soaked, makeshift shelters and the collapse of safe space for civilians.
Because the evidence packet included one detailed report, the article stays close to those confirmed facts. The casualty figures, locations and accounts from hospitals and civil defense all point to a severe day of bombardment that left Gaza's already overstretched emergency networks trying to work amid rubble, water and ongoing strikes.
