Multiple attacks across the besieged enclave a day before Israel is expected to reopen the Rafah border crossing.
Published On 31 Jan 2026
At least 31 Palestinians, including six children and several police officers, have been killed in relentless Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, a day before the Rafah border crossing is due to reopen.
An Israeli air strike on Saturday on a tent sheltering displaced people in the Mawasi area to the northwest of Khan Younis city killed at least seven Palestinians, including three children, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
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Their bodies were taken to the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis.
In Gaza City, emergency services reported that at least five Palestinians, including three children, were killed in an Israeli air strike on an apartment building in the Remal neighbourhood to the west of the city.
“We could feel the shockwaves of the explosions followed by a huge, dark, dusty cloud that filled the area, leaving at least five people killed inside the residential flat, including a mother and children,” Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reported from Gaza City.
Eight Palestinians were also injured in an Israeli bombing of an apartment building in the Daraj neighbourhood of Gaza City.
“All of this is happening inside the yellow line,” Mamhoud said, adding that in Khan Younis, a building “had been hit by fighter jets and destroyed completely after it was pre-warned by the Israeli