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January 16, 2026

Israeli Forces Kill 10 Palestinians in Latest Violations of U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire Deal
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Israeli forces killed at least 10 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on
Thursday, mostly in a series of airstrikes on residences. Two homes were
destroyed in an area of Deir al-Balah that was designated by Israel as a
so-called safe zone. A third home was bombed in the Nuseirat refugee
camp. Among the dead is a 62-year-old Palestinian woman killed by
Israeli gunfire in southern Gaza. Israel has killed nearly five
Palestinians per day, on average, since it agreed to a U.S.-brokered
so-called ceasefire deal on October 10, bringing the death toll to 451
Palestinians and the number of injured to more than 1,250.

The latest killings came even as the Trump administration announced the
second phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement. President Trump announced
Wednesday he'd formed a so-called Board of Peace for Gaza, with himself
as the chair, alongside a 15-member committee of Palestinian technocrats
given the assignment of governing postwar Gaza. This comes as the United
Nations warned that it could take more than seven years to clear over 60
million tons of rubble in Gaza that's piled up from more than two years
of attacks by Israel. 


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